The future of France’s contested pension reform is in the hands of the Constitutional Council, which will rule Friday on the constitutionality of a bill that was forced through parliament without a vote. So what is the council? And what are the possible outcomes?
Usually a discreet body, the Constitutional Council rules on the constitutionality of bills and avoids wading into the fray of politics. The pension reform has pushed it into the spotlight in a way to which it is unaccustomed.
