250 parliamentarians, mostly from the left, presented this request for a shared initiative referendum on Monday. The Constitutional Council must verify its admissibility.
The request for a shared initiative referendum, initiated by the left to challenge the pension reform, was presented on Monday to the Constitutional Council, said the institution that will first examine its admissibility.
It has been presented by some 250 parliamentarians, deputies and senators, mostly from the left, while the reform has just been approved in Parliament.
The Council must check its admissibility. Then the collection of citizen signatures could be opened, in an attempt to reach a tenth of the voters, or 4.87 million signatures, within a period of nine months, to open the way to a referendum.
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Source: BFM TV
