The Constitutional Council has validated the flagship measure of raising the legal age of departure to 64 years. "The decision of the Constitutional Council shows that it is more attentive to the needs of the presidential monarchy than to those of the sovereign people," says Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

"We are facing a bad, unjust, illegitimate law," says PS First Secretary Olivier Faure. "It's a disappointment, it's not a surrender," says the Greens' national secretary, Marine Tondelier.