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Anti-riot police have been deployed and barriers have been erected in the streets around the headquarters of France's constitutional council as its prepares to make a decision on controversial reforms to pension laws.

For weeks there have been violent protests against a law pushed through by President Emmanuel Macron, which raises the retirement age from 62 to 64.

The reforms were passed by parliament after the government used a mechanism called Article 49.3 to bypass a vote by MPs. Now, the country's equivalent of the Supreme Court will decide whether that was constitutional.

Christopher Weissberg is an MP for President Macron's Renaissance party. What does he make of the way Mr Macron brought these reforms in?

(Photo: A French gendarme stands guard as a security perimeter is established around France's Conseil Constitutionnel. Credit: Getty Images)