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Protesters are trying to pressure lawmakers to bring down the government and doom the unpopular retirement age increase President Macronis trying to impose without a vote in the National Assembly. ....
Bonfires in the streets of French cities, broken windows and mass protests: the French citizens are against an increase in the retirement age, which the cabinet approved despite public resistance. ....
Workers across France have vowed to continue protesting as President Emmanuel Macron shows no sign of backing down over controversial pension reforms ....
Raise the retirement age. the revolt in the streets seen in the halls of parliament today. some lawmakers walked out on macron s appointed prime minister, elizabeth born as she tried to make the case for retirement reform. meagan fitzgerald is on the ground in paris for us. not a big victory for macron. better than some had expected. where does this go from here? reporter: you re absolutely right. the opposite, if the two motions were to have passed, the prime minister would have had to resign, and cabinet members as well. now this is the law of the land. just within the last hour when it was announced that the first motion failed, the crowd of protesters here really erupted with anger. i want to pan over to show you. the protesters have gathered here. this is a common sight. this is what we have seen for the last several days, since macron pushed through the legislation on thursday. the area where we are, just in the shadows of the eiffel tower, ....
Protesters building barricades setting fires, a huge police presence and they re preparing for a very long night there. we want to do a deeper dive on what this means with paris correspondent for the washington post. we saw, rick, the fiery protests across france yesterday overnight. incredible season. lawmakers were very unhappy about what was happening here. how did it come to this? this is really weeks in the making perhaps even years, frankly. he is trying to reform the requirement age of the labor system for many years ever since he s been elected in 2017. over the past few months, he s made this commitment to pass this retirement reform to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 and he has quite a lot of interest groups over the past ....