Macron's leadership at risk amid tensions over pension plan

France pension reform: Macron's government faces no confidence vote

They come after a pension reform bill was forced through parliament last Thursday without a vote.

France's Macron faces another test with no-confidence vote on pension reform Monday

President Emanuel Macron faces a critical moment on Monday when the French 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.

Macron’s leadership at risk amid tensions over pension plan

PARIS — A parody photo appearing on protest signs and online in France shows President Emmanuel Macron sitting on piles of garbage. It’s both a reference to the trash going uncollected with Paris sanitation workers on strike — and to what many French people think about their leader. Macron had hoped his push to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 would cement his legacy as the president who transformed France’s economy for the 21st century. I…

France protests: Emmanuel Macron’s leadership at risk amid tensions over pension plan

Macron hoped his push to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 would cement his legacy.

Macron’s leadership at risk amid tensions over pension plan

President Emmanuel Macron finds his leadership contested, both in parliament and on the streets of major cities.

Macron's leadership at risk amid tensions over pension plan

President Emmanuel Macron had hoped his push to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 would cement his legacy as the president who transformed France's economy for the 21st century. Instead, he finds his leadership contested, both in parliament and on the streets of major cities.