Macron signs France pension law despite protests

French President Emmanuel Macron signed his controversial pension reform into law Saturday, prompting accusations from unions and the left he was showing "contempt" towards those behind a three-month protest movement.

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Costumers sit on a terrace next to a hand-written message reading "Macron Explosion", on the day of a ruling from France's Constitutional Council on a contested pension reform pushed by the French government, in Rennes, western France, on April 14, 2023. - France's top constitutional court is to rule on April 14 on whether to approve the French President's deeply unpopular pensions overhaul after months of protests. -- Photo: Damien Meyer / AFP

2023-04-15 19:49:40

French President Emmanuel Macron signed his controversial pension reform into law Saturday, prompting accusations from unions and the left he was showing "contempt" towards those behind a three-month protest movement.

The alterations became law after the text was published before dawn in France's official journal, with the livid opposition claiming that Macron had moved to smuggle it through in the depth of the night.

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