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France confirms the postponement of the retirement age to 64

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France’s constitutional council approved this Friday a deferral of the minimum age retirement from 62 to 64the main pension reform measure approved by the Government. In addition, the

France confirms the postponement of the retirement age to 64

France’s constitutional council approved this Friday a deferral of the minimum age retirement from 62 to 64the main pension reform measure approved by the Government.

In addition, the body rejected the petition to submit pension reform for consideration. referendum– the message says.

Instead, the Constitutional Council invalidated six articles of the law, especially two concerning the encouragement of hiring workers over 55 in large companies.

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The solution isdangerous precedent“Because the government can continue to use the legal form of amending the budget to ‘important reforms that must be approved,'” Mathilde Pano, chairwoman of the La France Insoumise parliamentary group, said.

Speaking alongside other leaders of the Nupes leftist coalition (socialists, environmentalists, communists), Panot warned that protests against reform and issued a fresh call to President Emmanuel Macron to withdraw the reform.

“It is not the Constitutional Council that will make the French people change their minds,” he repeated.

Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne indicated that in its decision, the Constitutional Council considers that “both in substance and in procedure” the reform is in conformity with the Constitution.

“The text reaches the end of its democratic process. not today neither winners nor losersBorn added on Twitter.

The decision of the Constitutional Council came after a tense day of waiting, with some 230 protest marches called for unions across the country, including a rally at the Town Hall Square in Paris.

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The building of the Constitutional Council itself was armored since yesterday, with barriers and riot police, and a ban on organizing concentrations near it.

(EFE)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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