France’s Constitutional Council Rejects Bid for Pension Referendum

PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron’s deeply unpopular pension regulation handed one other hurdle on Wednesday when the Constitutional Council rejected a second bid by political opponents to carry a referendum in opposition to the reform.

Macron defied fierce commerce union opposition and weeks of typically violent protests in opposition to his plan to lift the retirement age by two years to 64, ramming the laws by way of parliament with no ultimate vote and signing it into regulation final month.

(Reporting by Elizabeth Pineau; Writing by Ingrid Melander; Enhancing by Christina Fincher)

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