French President Emmanuel Macron signed his controversial speech pension Reform to the Sabbath law, and raise the state pension age, despite the three-month block of Protests and calls from unions not to implement the legislation.
Annunciation of The law came after the French Constitutional Council on Friday agreed to main pension- Increasing age and the following months of demonstrations against plan that government forced through parliament without a final vote.
Legislation that will gradually pay off up the age for State fee pension To 64 by 62, she was completely unpopular and protests erupted immediately out When the Constitutional Council decision He was announced.
Crowds marched through Paris on friday evening, with Some burnt trash cans, while in North West city of Rin was the entrance to the police station set on fire.
Trade unions on Friday called on the government Not enacting legislation, though green light of the Constitutional Council, urging the workers to return out in force for parades on Work day on May 1.
They refused an invitation from Macron to meet on Tuesday.
The president has bet reputation as a reformer on the pension changesWho is he says there is a need for avoid Billions of euro of incapacitation of all year at the end of Contract.
“never give this is my motto on Friday before the decision of the Constitutional Council, where he visited Notre Dame on annual of a fire that destroyed the famous Paris cathedral.
the government plans to apply new Legislation from September 1.
François Ruffin, legislator from left- wing LFI party f on Twitter accused government of declaring pension Law “like thieves in the night “.
The opposition parties made another offer for Citizens poll on Reform after the Constitutional Council on Friday refused a first Such a proposal.
the pension system It is the cornerstone of Dear France social protection model And trade Unions say that additional funding can be found Elsewhere, including taxing the rich more severely.
Public hostility to reform has increased since the government did not have a majority in parliamentby paying the bill in march without a final vote using special constitutional powers.
