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Added on the 20/03/2023 17:27:33 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Protesters are trying to pressure lawmakers to bring down the government and doom the unpopular retirement age increase President Macronis trying to impose without a vote in the National Assembly.
French government faces two no confidence votes on Monday over decision to push through pension bill
For months, millions of protesters across France have rallied against a recently enacted pension reform, which has increased the country's retirement age from 62 to 64. President Emmanuel Macron looks to have won his battle to push through the reform but the decision has made him widely unpopular. Political opponents and trade unions have urged protesters to maintain their campaign against the law and have called for a new day of mass protest on 1 May.
Bertrand Panchet, leader of one of the political opposition groups in France's National Assembly, files a motion of no-confidence against the government, which garnered 91 signatories. "I regret that my colleagues from LR (The Republicans, eds.) are not signatories, but I hope that many will vote for it," Panchet adds. The motion comes amid anger over the government's use of article 49.3 of the constitution to force President Emmanuel Macron's highly contested pension reform into law without a vote.
"We have to get together, we have to get organised and we have to fight," says a young demonstrator in a rally organised on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, after French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne deploys article 49.3 of the constitution to push through President Emmanuel Macron's controversial reform of the pension system. Another added: "The (article, Eds.) 49.3, is ... the embodiment of several weeks of authoritarianism and a denial of democracy."
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