There is almost no obstacle for the promulgation of the pension reform wanted by the government, which now has fifteen days to act after the decision of the Constitutional Council. As a last resort, the inter-union “solemnly” asked the President of the Republic to “not promulgate the law”.
“Faced with the massive rejection of this reform, the inter-union solemnly asks him not to promulgate the law, the only way to calm the anger that is expressed in the country,” she wrote in a press release. Calling on employees to make May 1 “a day of exceptional and popular mobilization against pension reform and for social justice”, she “decides (until then) not to accept meetings with the executive”, says -they have.
“Breaking the impasse through democratic consultation”
“Today, the Constitutional Council censured 6 articles of the law. The few ambitions it contained on the employment of seniors, the right to information, the hardship for contract employees in the public service… have disappeared from the final text. While it was already unfair, the text of the law postponing the legal retirement age is now even more unbalanced”, regret the eight main French unions as well as five youth organizations, which refused Emmanuel’s invitation. Macron to discuss at the Élysée.
Noting that the Elders also rejected the first draft parliamentary initiative aimed at organizing a referendum of shared initiative (RIP), the inter-union calls for the validation of the second RIP, which will make it possible to “break the impasse by a democratic consultation”. The Council must deliver its opinion on this RIP on May 3.
The inter-union also wants a “new deliberation” in Parliament, “as provided for in Article 10 of the Constitution, on the basis of consultation centered on labor issues”: “it would be a choice of wisdom and appeasement”.