A day after two no-confidence votes against French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne's government were rejected in the National Assembly (the lower house of France's parliament), which de facto meant that the controversial pension reform that led to the votes was approved, French President Emmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Macron was born on December 21, 1977 in the city of Amiens.
He is the youngest president of remains under pressure.
For today, he has scheduled a series of consultations, reported France Press.
At 9 a.m. local time, he has a meeting with the French Prime Minister.
Then there will be a working lunch with the presidents of the two parliamentary chambers, Yael Braun-Pivet and Gerard Larchet.
These consultations come amid calls for the government to resign over pension reform.
The opposition also intends to refer the Constitutional Council of France regarding the adopted bill.
A request for a referendum on the bill was also raised.
Prime Minister Born herself also said that she would refer the Constitutional Council to examine the text as soon as possible.
Tomorrow, Macron will also address the nation in an attempt to calm tensions.
It will be in the form of an interview that he will give to the French media "Teef 1" and "France 2".
The interview will be broadcast live on these two televisions.
It will start at 1pm local time.
The pension reform bill was passed on March 16 in the lower house of parliament without a vote, but by triggering Article 49.3 of the constitution, which allows such a thing to happen.
So far in the Fifth Republic, governments have invoked this article 100 times on various occasions.
This increased even more the dissatisfaction of the French opposition and the protesters against the pension reform itself.
Yesterday evening, after lively debates, two votes of no confidence against the government were rejected in the National Assembly.
The vote, tabled by Marine Le Pen's far-right National Assembly, was supported by just 94 lawmakers.
While the vote submitted by the transport parliamentary group was supported by 278 legislators, which is only 9 votes short of the required absolute majority of 287 votes.
Mass riots in France lasted all night
At night in a number of French cities there were again protests against the pension reform.
And an expression of the protests continues to be the accumulation of garbage on the streets of Paris because of the strike in the industry.
Cleaning staff have a so-called special pension regime, where retirement is earlier.
But even there the age was increased with the pension reform by two years, from the current 57 to 59 years, which caused their anger, AP notes.
The Paris municipality resorted to private companies for the collection of garbage, but despite this, there were 9,300 tons of uncollected waste on the streets of Paris yesterday.
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