The proclamation of the new law, which has sparked months of mass protest, came after France's constitutional council approved the pension-age increase from 62 to 64 on Friday.
on the pension changes, which he says are needed to avoid billions of euros of deficit each year by the end of the decade.
“Never give up, that’s my motto,” he said on Friday before the Constitutional Council verdict, as he visited Notre-Dame on the anniversary of a fire that gutted the celebrated Paris cathedral.Francois Ruffin, a lawmaker from the left-wing LFI party, on Twitter accused the government of proclaiming the pension law “like thieves in the night”.
have tabled another bid for a citizens’ referendum on the reform after the Constitutional Council on Friday rejected a first such proposal.say extra funding can be found elsewhere, including by taxing the rich more heavily. Public hostility to the reform has increased since the government, which does not have a majority in parliament,
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