PARIS, March 18 — French President Emmanuel Macron’s government on Friday faced no-confidence motions in parliament and intensified protests after imposing a contentious...
PARIS, March 18 — French President Emmanuel Macron’s government on Friday faced no-confidence motions in parliament and intensified protests after imposing a contentious pension reform without a vote in the lower house.
French opposition lawmakers on Friday retaliated by filing motions of no-confidence in the government, hoping to repeal the deeply unpopular law, which will hike the retirement age from 62 to 64. “We won’t give up,” said Philippe Melaine, a 49-year-old biology teacher. “There’s still hope that the reform can be revoked.”
In the energy sector, CGT union representative Eric Sellini strikers would halt production at a large refinery by this weekend or Monday.Dozens of protesters flooded onto the train tracks at the main station in the southwestern city of Bordeaux, an AFP photographer said. But the 45-year-old former banker lost his parliamentary majority in June after elections for the lower-house National Assembly.
RN figurehead Marine Le Pen, who leads its MPs in parliament, has described Thursday’s cabinet move as “a total failure for the government”.Trains, schools, public services and ports have since January been disrupted by strikes against the proposed reform.
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