The French constitution confirms the postponement of the retirement age to 64

French Constitutional Council confirmed the basics of the pension reform this Friday granted Emmanuel Macron a delay in the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64 and rejected the opposition’s request to try to force a referendum on the new government law. The body only declares itself against some measures, such as creating a list of managerial workers in companies with more than 300 workers.

The pension reform is one of the main legislative projects of President Macron, who has always rejected touching on the most controversial aspects of the text, stating that it is a “necessary” law that brings France closer to the regulatory framework of other European countries.

French unions promise to maintain social “militancy” In any case, while the executive ensures that its priority is to “calm” the waters. Elysee Palace he called the unions for next Tuesday, for a meeting with Macron that he wanted to hold regardless of the decision of the Constitutional Council. There was already a first meeting with Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne that ended without progress.

“This law is obscured by a series of legal, democratic and social decisions,” he emphasized. Sophie Binet, the general secretary of the French CGT, in press statements a few hours before the Constitutional Council, declared about the adaptation or non-adaptation of the law to the French Magna Carta. Binet explained that, depending on the decision, all unions will decide together to “call for new actions” of mobilization, such as have been carried out since January. In any case, he specified, the spirit is the spirit of “combat and determination”, reports Efe.