President of France Emmanuel Macron signed a controversial law pension reform her Francewhich basically increases the retirement age limit by two years, according to the Government Gazette.

Macron signed the bill, which has now become law after being ratified yesterday, Friday. French Constitutional Council The main measure of the reform is to raise the retirement age from the current 62 to 64 years.

Macron’s controversial bill was passed on March 20 after weeks of protests and fruitless debate in the National Assembly.

It was used to make it constitutional mechanism which allowed it without a vote of Parliament. The result was a deterioration in relations between the head of state and social partners.

Following the Constitutional Council’s decision, trade unions asked President Macron not to ratify it, while France’s biggest opposition parties said they were determined to continue fighting against the reform.

“There is no winner or loser,” the French Prime Minister assured. Elizabeth Bornreferring to the “end of the institutional and democratic course” of this text, which was adopted by the National Assembly after referring to article “49.3” of the French Constitution, which allows bills to be adopted without a vote.