He had been waiting for this for weeks. So when the Constitutional Council validated the text, almost in the version that the government wanted, Emmanuel Macron did not wait another minute. Despite a new spontaneous demonstration and the “solemn” pleas of the inter-union, the president promulgated his unpopular pension reform overnight.
The President of the Republic had fifteen days after the validation of most of the reform measures on Friday by the Constitutional Council to affix his signature, thus giving it the force of text. But the government, tossed about by the power of the protests, wants to move forward. “There is no winner or loser,” assured Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Friday evening, referring to “the end of the institutional and democratic journey” of the text adopted in the Assembly after a 49.3. Despite the validation of the main elements of the text, including the passage of the legal age to 64, and the redesign of the senior index and the referendum wanted by the left, the Constitutional Council recognized the “unusual nature” of the accumulation of procedures aimed at restricting debate in Parliament.