Pension Law Promulgated Overnight: Opposition Condemns ‘Provocation’

Reactions do not stop this Saturday morning after the promulgation of the pension reform. The day after the body of the text was approved by the Constitutional Council, the law was published in the Official Journal, and the union “solemnly” asked President Emmanuel Macron not to make it public.

“What they just practiced is democratic robbery,” the rebellious François Ruffin tweeted, accusing the government of “revealing its pension law in the middle of the night.”

For the chairman of the LFI group in the National Assembly, Mathilde Panot, the head of state put his signature, thereby giving the reform the force of the text, at night, because he is “afraid of the people.” The MP also promised that the fight “against retirement at 64” will continue.

On the same bluebird social media platform, Ecology Europe Greens national secretary Marine Tondelier reasoned that the nighttime release was a “provocation” and “new bluster” on the part of Emmanuel Macron.

Government defends ‘logical’ continuation

“3:28 a.m. to make public, this is not trivial,” socialist Olivier Fauret commented on France Inter this Saturday morning. Emmanuel Macron “is headlong in a hurry, but the French won’t let him do it,” the PS’s first secretary insisted.

Eric Cockerell goes even further. “Promulgation of the law in the middle of the night symbolically shows that you are afraid of your actions. (…) That you intend to deal with a whole people with whips, ”the rebellious deputy reasoned according to information about France.

“There is nothing surprising,” said Franck Riester, Minister for Parliamentary Relations, in an interview with France Inter. “Promulgation is always done after the decision of the Constitutional Council,” he assured, “this is a logical continuation.” According to him, “we have come to the end of the democratic process.”