France’s President Macron survives no-confidence vote
France’s President Emmanuel Macron pulled through a no-confidence vote on Monday.
A far-right lawmaker had moved the motion in response to public criticism of Mr Macron’s insistence on passing a bill that raises France’s national retirement age to 64 from 62.
The country’s upper house of parliament, the Senate, passed the pension bill this month.
Mr Macron has been pushing for the retirement age reform since the start of his first term in 2017, and it has sparked two months of protests, sporadic strikes, and isolated acts of violence. Polls constantly suggest that two-thirds of the people in France oppose the reform.
The centre-right Republicans, who last year proposed raising the retirement age even higher to 65, ultimately provided just enough votes to save the law and the administration led by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne.
If the censure motion had been approved, the administration would have been overthrown, forcing Mr Macron to either form a new government or dissolve the National Assembly, the lower house, and hold elections.
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