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September 12, 2010, Sunday
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FRANCE'S lower house of parliament has voted to raise the minimum retirement age to 62 from 60, the cornerstone of the government's pension reform that provoked huge protests across the country.
President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative UMP party comfortably approved the crucial clause with support from the New Centre party in a show of hands.
"We are clearly opposed to this unjust measure which is totally inappropriate to the social reality of our country," said Marisol Touraine of the opposition Socialist party, which has pledged to revoke the rise if it wins the 2012 elections.
The measure will increase the minimum legal retirement age to 62 by 2018, increasing it by four months every year from its current level of 60, which was established in a 1983 by Francois Mitterand's socialist government.
Unions have called another strike in protest for September 23, hoping to build on a protest on Tuesday which they say attracted 2.7 million marchers.
President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative UMP party comfortably approved the crucial clause with support from the New Centre party in a show of hands.
"We are clearly opposed to this unjust measure which is totally inappropriate to the social reality of our country," said Marisol Touraine of the opposition Socialist party, which has pledged to revoke the rise if it wins the 2012 elections.
The measure will increase the minimum legal retirement age to 62 by 2018, increasing it by four months every year from its current level of 60, which was established in a 1983 by Francois Mitterand's socialist government.
Unions have called another strike in protest for September 23, hoping to build on a protest on Tuesday which they say attracted 2.7 million marchers.
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