The French Constitutional Council has recognized the legitimacy of the pension reform and approved an increase in the retirement age to 64. This is reported by Agence France-Presse.
According to the agency, the members of the council finally approved the main provisions of the pension reform, in particular the increase in the retirement age. At the same time, 6 points of the pensions bill proposed by the government were rejected, including fines for companies refusing to employ people over 55, as well as the creation of an “index of the elderly”.
“The fight continues,” said French Invictus leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a fierce Macron critic, Euronews reports.
“The political fate of the pension reform is not yet decided,” said Marine Le Pen, a French MP who heads a faction of the far-right National Rally party.
Recall that on January 10, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Born presented a plan for a new pension reform, the entry into force of which is scheduled for the summer of 2023. According to the announced plan, the country will gradually raise the retirement age. retirement from 62 to 64 by 2030. Unions have organized thousands of actions across the country.
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