On Monday, hundreds of mainly young protesters gathered by Les Invalides, the final resting place of Napoleon, to demonstrate against pension reform. The three main incinerators serving the French capital have been mostly blocked, as has a garbage sorting center northwest of Paris. Garbage in Paris has piled ever higher and reeked of rotting food on the 15th day of a strike by collectors. The tensions in the political arena have been echoed on the streets, marked by intermittent protests and strikes in various sectors, including transportation, energy and sanitation workers. Far-right leader Marine Le Pen said she would ask the council to censure it.įrance, like many richer nations, has a low birth rate and its citizens have longer life expectancy.

Opponents said they would ask the Constitutional Council to review the text before it is formally promulgated, opening the door to the possible rejection of articles within the measure if they are not in line with the constitution. Yet this is not the end of the complex path to turn the bill into law. The speaker of the National Assembly, Yael Braun-Pivet, said the failure of both votes means parliament has adopted the pension bill. Macron’s centrist alliance has more seats than any other group in the lower chamber. The second motion, brought by the far-right National Rally, won just 94 votes in the chamber.

The first no-confidence motion, proposed by a small centrist group with support across the left, narrowly missed approval by National Assembly lawmakers Monday afternoon, garnering 278 of the 287 votes needed to pass. The council has the power to reject articles within bills but usually approves them. PARIS (AP) - Parliament adopted a divisive pension bill Monday raising the retirement age in France from 62 to 64, after lawmakers in the lower chamber rejected two no-confidence votes against the government.īut the bill pushed through by President Emmanuel Macron without lawmakers’ approval still faces a review by the Constitutional Council before it can be signed into law.

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