The Constitutional Council is due to announce on Friday whether it validates the request for a referendum of shared initiative (RIP) filed by 252 parliamentarians opposed to the pension reform. In the event of a green light, the second stage of the RIP would then begin: the collection, for nine months, of signatures in support of this bill.

The previous cross-party trial, in 2019-2020 against the privatization of Aéroports de Paris (ADP), had recorded more than a million signatures, still far from the 10% required by the electorate.