An elite French institution was expected to rule Friday on whether President Emmanuel Macron's contested plan to raise the retirement age is constitutional, a decision that could calm or further enrage opponents of the change.
All eyes were on the heavily guarded Constitutional Council, which can nix all or parts of a complex pension reform plan that Macron pushed through without a vote by the lower house of parliament. Spontaneous demonstrations were likely around France ahead of the nine-member court's ruling.The president's drive to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64 has provoked months of labor strikes and protests.
The court members can reject the pension legislation in whole or in part. Any sections they conclude pass constitutional muster must be promulgated into law, whether or not the council also grants the referendum request. "As long as this reform isn't withdrawn, the mobilization will continue in one form or another," Sophie Binet, head of the leftist CGT union, said Thursday.
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