The French Constitutional Council rejected a request for a referendum of shared initiative (RIP) on the pension reform. Critics of the French RIP procedure argue that even with the validation of the referendum proposal, the initiative had almost no chance of leading to a referendum.
Since the constitutional reform of 2008 establishing the RIP and its implementation in 2015, only five referendum bills have been tabled. Only the proposal opposing the privatization of Aéroports de Paris in 2019 reached the point of collecting citizens' signatures, without however managing to collect enough.