Emmanuel Macron is facing another furious backlash in France as riot police clash with protesters furious over his new pension reforms. Footage shared online shows police deploying tear gas and are striking the protesters with batons during demonstrations near Place Vauban in Paris. It comes as Mr Macron’s Government survived two no-confidence votes in the lower chamber of parliament that had been proposed in opposition to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.
In what will initially be a huge relief to the French President, lawmakers from the National Assembly rejected two motions.
One was from the far-right National Rally and the second – a more threatening one from a small centrist group – that gathered support across the left.
The first motion from the centrists garnered 278 votes, falling just nine votes short of the 287 needed to pass, while the far-right initiative won just 94 votes.
Defeat from both votes by the opposition aimed at stopping the hugely-contested pension reforms in their tracks mean the associated bill has effectively been adopted.
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