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Added on the 15/02/2023 09:13:48 - Copyright : France 24 EN
The French National Assembly widely rejected the first motion of no confidence tabled against new Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. The motion received 124 votes out of the 289 required. IMAGES
The Law committee at France's National Assembly begins going throught nearly 1,500 amendments to the Immigration bill, some designed to undo the text passed by the Senate, others to make it even tougher. The committee aims to produce a text that can be voted on by a majority of MPs by Sunday. IMAGES
Demonstrators run away from tear gas fired by police at Place de la République in Paris, on the sidelines of a rally against the French government's plan to reform the pension system. IMAGES
A large police force is deployed in Paris on the Champs-Elysées, Place de la Concorde and in front of the National Assembly, where gatherings are forbidden by the police after two evenings of demonstrations over the pension reform. IMAGES
"And we'll go, and we'll go, and we'll go until we withdraw," chanted dozens of demonstrators gathered in Rennes after the use of 49.3 to pass the pension reform. "Emmanuel Macron, president of the bosses, your reform we don't want", they added. IMAGES
"If the government were to use the 49.3" article to push through its pension reform, "there would be no more rules for anyone," warns Olivier Mateu, secretary general of the Bouches-du-Rhône CGT departmental union, at a press conference in Martigues. IMAGES