MADRID, 16 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The vice president of the French political party The Republicans, Julien Aubert, has asked the president, Emmanuele Macron, to organize a referendum on the issue of pensions.
“(Emmanuel Macron) would show great honor by organizing a multiple-choice referendum, in one or two rounds, so that the French can decide on the future of the pay-as-you-go pension system by allowing them to choose between several detailed proposals,” Aubert explained in a interview with the French newspaper ‘Le Journal du Dimanche’.
The idea would be to build the referendum with the different parties in the country, all having the freedom to make their own proposal on the reform. This shared referendum proposal was already presented by the left, but it was rejected this Friday by the Constitutional Council, for which a second request has been made.
“By doing this, Emmanuel Macron would bow to a truth worth remembering: the true sovereign, the one who has the last word in everything, is called the French people,” Aubert said.
Macron officially promulgated the pension law proposed by his government this Saturday morning, hours after the French Constitutional Council endorsed the main pillars of the controversial reform, and after a night of protests that left more than a hundred detainees and one last unsuccessful effort by the left to return the text to the National Assembly.
