Global Courant 2023-04-15 04:24:45
France’s highest constitutional body has authorized the Macron government’s highly unpopular move to raise the state pension age from 62 to 64.
The Constitutional Council rejected calls for a referendum by political opponents, but also scrapped some reforms, citing legal flaws.
Since January, there have been twelve days of protests against the reforms.
BBC Newsnight’s Joe Inwood spoke to protesters on the streets of Paris where riot police have been deployed, with one demonstrator calling President Macron’s reforms “economically, socially and politically violent”.
