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Added on the 20/03/2023 15:29:49 - Copyright : France 24 EN
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
Clashes with the police break out during the demonstration against pensions reform in Rennes. France's Senate voted late Saturday to approve a deeply unpopular reform to the country's pension system. IMAGES
After two rounds of voting, Yaël Braun-Pivet, a member of parliament close to President Emmanuel Macron, is elected president of the French National Assembly, becoming the first woman to hold the position in France. IMAGES
France's new lower house of parliament begins voting to elect the speaker as it meets for the first time since the legislative elections. Pro-Macron candidate Yael Braun-Pivet is expected to be the first woman in French history to claim the chair. IMAGES
Newly-elected MPs from Emmanuel Macron's party LREM, renamed Renaissance, arrive at the National Assembly, as the French president looks for a way out of the deadlock after his failure to retain a parliamentary majority. IMAGES
Two days after the second round of the French parliamentary elections, the newly-elected MPs of the left-wing coalition Nupes enter the hemicycle of the National Assembly. IMAGES