French President Macron's government faces no-confidence motions in parliament and intensified protests after imposing a contentious pension reform without a vote in the lower house
Protesters gather during a demonstration in Bordeaux, a day after the government pushed a contentious pension reform.
French opposition lawmakers retaliated by filing motions of no-confidence in the government, hoping to repeal the deeply unpopular law, which will hike the retirement age from 62 to 64. They are likely to be debated in parliament on Monday afternoon, parliamentary sources told the AFP news agency. Groups of people threw bottles and fireworks at the security forces, who responded by firing tear gas to try to clear the square. Police said they made 12 arrests.
"Changing the government or prime minister will not put out this fire, only withdrawing the reform," said the head of the moderate CFDT union, Laurent Berger.Macron put the pensions reform, which also seeks to increase the number of years people have to work to receive a full pension, at the centre of his re-election campaign last year.
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