Really bad form, whatever your opinion of the underlying issue:
"President Emmanuel Macron, apparently short of parliamentary support for his contentious proposal to increase the retirement age by two years [from 62 to 64], opted on Thursday to push the legislation through without a vote in the National Assembly."
Macron's backstop? He can't run again, in 2027. So he's free of any political downside, which would otherwise be considerable. The NY Times reports that, according to polls, "roughly two-thirds of French people say they disapprove of the plan."
Macrom nay be right about the need to increase the retirement age. He may be taking the only reasonable, even ultimately unavoidable course. And the "French people" may be altogether delusional. But in a democratic society, ramming legislation through without a vote by one house of parliament carries more than a whiff of clamoring authoritarianism. And the world already has enough of that.