PARIS, March 19 — President Emanuel Macron faces a critical moment tomorrow when the National Assembly is due to vote on no-confidence motions filed after his government bypassed...
PARIS, March 19 — President Emanuel Macron faces a critical moment tomorrow when the National Assembly is due to vote on no-confidence motions filed after his government bypassed parliament on Thursday to push through an unpopular rise in the state pension age.
However, while tomorrow’s votes may put on display anger at Macron’s government, they are unlikely to bring it down.Centrist group Liot proposed a multiparty no-confidence motion, which was co-signed by the far-left Nupes alliance. Hours later, France’s far-right National Rally party, which has 88 National Assembly members, also filed a no-confidence motion.
The leaders of the conservative Les Republicains party have ruled out such an alliance. None of them had sponsored the first no-confidence motion filed on Friday.In the southern city of Nice, the political office of Eric Ciotti, the Les Republicains leader, was ransacked overnight and tags were left threatening riots if the motion was not supported.
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