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The Constitutional Council’s function is to evaluate whether or not the opposition’s request meets the authorized situations for a possible referendum. If that’s the case, supporters would have 9 months to gather signatures from not less than 4.8 million, or 10%, of French voters.
Macron’s authorities would then have the ability to select between sending the opposition’s textual content to parliament for debate and ultimately a vote, or ready for six months to place the measure earlier than voters in a referendum. The proposal would solely go to a nationwide referendum if it weren’t debated by lawmakers.
Nonetheless, the Constitutional Council rejected an identical proposal in April. The authors have revised the measure so as to add language stating {that a} change within the financing of France’s pension system is required.
The method, established in 2015, has by no means but led to a referendum.
No matter what the council decides, its ruling wouldn’t droop the legislation that Macron’s authorities pushed by way of by utilizing a particular constitutional energy to boost the retirement age with out a remaining parliamentary vote.
Macron has defended the reform, saying it’s needed to keep the pension system afloat because the inhabitants ages.
The measure has prompted months of street protests from opponents who argue there are different methods to finance the pension system, together with by way of a tax on the rich or employers as an alternative.
The nation’s primary labor unions on Tuesday referred to as for one more spherical of nationwide demonstrations and strikes on June 6.
