BREAKING: President Emmanuel Macron has survived a no-confidence vote in the French National Assembly after the government bypassed the lower house with unpopular proposals to raise the country's retirement age by two years to 64. 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube
on Friday after the government bypassed the lower house with unpopular proposals to raise the country's retirement age by two years to 64.
Centrist MPs and those from the far-right National Rally had both tabled motions of no confidence in the government. The centrist group's vote did not succeed, with 278 MPs voting in favour - narrowly short of the 287 needed to get the motion through. The second less well-supported motion - scheduled for this evening - is not expected to succeed, as other opposition parties have already said they will not vote for it.
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