PARIS (AFP) – France’s constitutional court on Monday approved the main project of President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial pension reform but rejected parts of the legislation. The opposition has vowed to keep fighting.
After nearly three months of protests, France’s Constitutional Council ruled today that the legislation’s reforms to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 stand.
The constitutional court struck down six measures, saying they were not seen as fundamental to reforms, and rejected calls by the left for a referendum on an alternative annual reform law that would keep the retirement age at 62.
Faced with the constitutional court’s approval of the main annual reform project, French far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon vowed to fight to the end.
“Continuing the struggle and gathering strength,” Melenchon, leader of the radical left France Unbowed party, said on Twitter.
Marine Le Pen, the nominal leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, said the fate of the change was “undecided” despite the Constitutional Court’s ruling. (Translator: Xu Ruicheng)
