NEW: France’s Constitutional Council approves unpopular plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, in a victory for President Macron after three months of mass protests over the legislation.
France’s Constitutional Council on Friday approved an unpopular plan to raise the retirement age to 64, in a victory forThe move is likely to enrage unions and other opponents ofThe council rejected some other measures in the pension bill, but theAll eyes were on the heavily guarded Constitutional Council, which could have nixed all or parts of the complex pension reform plan that Macron pushed through without a vote by the lower house of parliament.
The plan to increase the retirement age by two years, from 62 to 64, was to be Macron’s showcase measure in his second term.Spontaneous demonstrations were held around France ahead of the nine-member council’s ruling. Opponents of the pension reform blockaded entry points into some cities, including Rouen in the west or Marseille in the south, slowing or stopping traffic.
The leftist CGT union said Friday it had filed “more precise observations” with the council. The union said the “the government hijacked parliamentary procedure” by wrapping the pension reform plan into a bill to finance social security, thus allowing it to push the measure through without a vote.
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