Some awakenings are more difficult than others. On Saturday April 15, France will wake up to the news: the unpopular pension reform, with its flagship measure of lowering the retirement age to 64, was promulgated this Saturday morning in the Official Journal. The executive will therefore have lost no time and formalizes its law the day after the validation of the main part of the text by the Constitutional Council.
It was, precisely, the wish of the inter-union, which had asked “solemnly” to President Emmanuel Macron “not to promulgate the law”. Like the previous requests for meetings, this one remained a dead letter: by promulgating the text, the Head of State opposed an end of inadmissibility.
But after this partial validation, the inter-union did not announce itself defeated: “It’s not over”, she announced, convinced that not enacting the law was the “only way to calm the anger”. Too late, then.