Macron’s pensions reform: promulgated but not legitimized
After France’s Constitutional Council on Friday approved nearly all of President Emmanuel Macron’s legislation to reform the pensions system, notably the raising of the retirement age on full pension rights to 64, the legislation was enacted as law in the early hours of Saturday. In this op-ed analysis of the move, Mediapart’s political affairs correspondent Ellen Salvi sets out why the social and political crisis created by the fiercely contested reform has now also become an institutional one, paving a path in France for future illiberal regimes.
AsAs expected, France’s Constitutional Council on Friday validated almost all of Emmanuel Macron’s reform of the country’s pensions system, which notably includes raising, for most of the population, the age of retirement on full pension rights from 62 to 64, and which has been fiercely opposed in three months of mass, nationwide street protests.
