Law enforcement used tear gas to disperse hundreds of violent protesters in the city of Lille, according to Le Figaro.
In Paris, demonstrators gathered in the Saint-Lazare Station area, and fires caused by protesters were reported in the Boetie area. Violent incidents were also recorded in the area of Vauban Square in Paris.
In the city of Strasbourg, the demonstrators caused a series of damages, on Monday evening, by attacking shop windows and billboards. Approximately 1,000 demonstrators gathered in Strasbourg’s Kleber Square.
Despite the rejection of the censure motions, the opposition insists on the resignation of the Elisabeth Borne Government, claiming that it no longer has legitimacy, given that one of the appeals was rejected at the limit. President Emmanuel Macron invited the deputies and senators of the pro-government coalition to a meeting scheduled for Tuesday at the Élysée Palace.
The National Assembly, the lower house of the French Parliament, rejected, on Monday evening, the two motions of censure once morest the pension reform plan, practically admitting its adoption through the procedure of assuming governmental responsibility.
The first motion of no confidence, submitted by the centrist political group LIOT (Liberties, Independents, French Overseas Territories and Regions), was narrowly rejected, receiving 278 votes in favor, but short of a majority of 287 votes. The second motion, submitted by the far-right National Mobilization (RN), received only 94 votes in the National Assembly.
By rejecting the censure motions, the controversial pension reform plan was adopted through the procedure of assuming governmental responsibility. But the left-wing alliance New Popular Ecological and Social Union (NUPES, opposition) announced that it will file a referral to the Constitutional Court. The main trade union centers are preparing new large-scale protest actions.
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(source: Mediafax)
