Emmanuel Macron will really not have dragged. The unpopular pension reform, with its flagship measure of lowering the retirement age to 64, was promulgated early this Saturday morning in the Official Journal, after the validation of most of the text by the Constitutional Council. The President of the Republic had fifteen days to affix his signature, thus giving it the force of text.
And what does it matter if, after the decision of the Constitutional Council on Friday, the inter-union had asked “solemnly” Emmanuel Macron to “not promulgate the law”. This request remained a dead letter. “The Social Security Code is thus amended (…). In the first paragraph, the word: sixty-two is replaced by the word: sixty-four “, states the text.
” It is not finished “
The Constitutional Council had validated, on Friday, the essentials of the pension reform and blocked a first request for a referendum of shared initiative (RIP) from the left, which hoped to begin the collection of 4.8 million signatures with a view to an unprecedented consultation of the French. While acknowledging the “unusual nature” of the accumulation of procedures aimed at restricting debate in Parliament.
“There is no winner or loser,” assured Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, referring to “the end of the institutional and democratic journey” of the text adopted in the Assembly after a 49.3. The inter-union, which refused an invitation launched by Emmanuel Macron, assured that it was “not finished”, convinced that not enacting the law was the “only way to calm the anger (…)”.