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groups from unions, to students and others coming forward to raise their objections. in part, it is crystallised around the pension age, but so many different analysts saying the same thing, that so many different grievances weaved into these numbers on the streets. a more complicated one for the government to solve, i suspect than simply yes or no on the legal age. but that news coming and that the constitutional council has given it the thumbs up. there will be no referendum, that was a possibility. let s bring in a french political analyst and he is there waiting to talk to us in paris. it s not surprise decision of the constitutional court because a lot of people were saying that the referendum will pass and that the constitutional court will not avoid it. so, it s not a surprise, but i think that we will see in the upcoming hours and the weekend a lot of riots and strikes in the country, because there is still 70% of the french population that is against the refere ....
back to paris, want to show you some pictures on the streets because large crowds have gathered throughout the day, but they are digesting the news that s come from the constitutional council that has effectively given emmanuel macron the go ahead to change the pension age in france from 62 to 64. we ve had two months and three weeks of looking at diaries of protests right across france, cities of large numbers, large coalitions of students and unions, of workers all against the move. now they were hoping through the protests that it would change the government s mind that didn t work, they were then hoping the constitutional courts would put a break or change the government s mind, that hasn t worked. so president emmanuel macron making it clear he intends to put this on the statute books in the next 48 hours, so having waited for this constitutional council decision, he now wants to get on with it. he s invested so much of his personal capital, he s determined to ge ....
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