France: Congress called for censorship of reform

France is experiencing intense days of protests after the decree by which Emmanuel Macron, president of the country, approved the pension reform and, amid the tension, Congress presented two motions of censure to the project. After getting the half sanction in the upper house of parliament, the reform was again discussed in the lower house, where the majority of positive votes was still in doubt. Given the possible rejection, the president decided to approve the measure last Thursday through an exceptional decree, based on article 49.3 that allows him to dispense with the legislative vote, which caused an excessive increase in protests. The French population has been in the streets ever since, and the entire country was plunged under protest. Blocked roads, closed schools and garbage piling up in the streets as trash service was suspended shaped the scenario that gripped the streets on Friday. With this panorama, two motions of censure were presented: one by the group of independent deputies LIOT and another by the far-right bloc of Marine Le Pen. Both motions will be voted on next Monday, and if approved, the reform would lose effect. Earlier, Macron went so far as to threaten to dissolve the Assembly elected in June should the reform take another path.

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