The vice-president of the French political party The Republicans, Julien Aubert, has called on 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» explained Aubert in an interview with the French newspaper ‘Le Journal du Dimanche’.
The idea would be to construct the referendum with the country’s different parties, with everyone having the freedom to make their own proposal on the reform. This proposal for a shared referendum was already presented by the left, but was rejected this Friday by the Constitutional Council, so 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» has declared Aubert.
Macron officially promulgated early Saturday morning the pension law proposed by his government, 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 arrested and a last unsuccessful effort by the left to return the text to the National Assembly.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
