France faces a day of reckoning as its parliament holds a key vote on no-confidence motions after days of fiery protests over a pension plan.
plan to raise the national retirement age from 62 to 64 has sparked weeks of national strikes and demonstrations, and police have clashed with protesters in cities across the country.
Borne, Macron’s appointed majority leader, and her Cabinet of ministers would be obliged to stand down if at least 287 lawmakers back one of the motions in a vote Monday afternoon.last summer, albeit on a much-reduced majority thanks to a surge in support for the far-right National Assembly, and he can appoint a new government without the need for an election unless he chooses to hold one.
Macron’s centrist alliance still has the most seats in the National Assembly and political commentators in France don't expect the bill to pass, but if more conservative lawmakers agree and back the motion, the government's position will be perilous. "It's actually possible that the current prime minister may lose her job even if her government survives this no-confidence motion, because she has taken the primary responsibility for introducing this legislation and spearheading it through Parliament," said Rainbow Murray, an expert on French politics at Queen Mary University of London.
French television showed protests also taking place across the country, including in Marseille in the south and Nantes in the west.
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