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French President Emmanuel Macron has signed his pension reform bill into law after riots once again broke out on the streets of Paris.
Controversial pension reforms drawn up by the French government have finally been signed into law by President Emmanuel Macron, despite riots breaking out in Paris and beyond on Thursday and Friday.
Protesters had been hoping that the country’s Constitutional Court would shoot the legislation down or force it to go to referendum, with many arguing that the nature of the bill breached the French constitution.
However, according to a report by Le Figaro, the legal body ruled that the vast majority of points contained in the law were indeed constitutional.
Judges instead only struck out a few far less controversial elements of the bill, some of which were even added in a desperate attempt to place the country’s opposition.
The Parisian public responded to the news with spontaneous protests, some of which reportedly devolved into rioting, with over 100 people being arrested by police in relation to unrest in the city.
???? Coups de matraques sur un groupe de manifestants. Nombreuses barricades dans le quartier. Tensions à #Paris. pic.twitter.com/BQCJrKJ049
Clément Lanot (@ClementLanot) April 14, 2023
Seemingly unperturbed by the violence, Marcon quickly proceeded to make the bill official, signing the reforms into law early on Saturday morning.
