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Protests continue after pension plan push

The French government survived two no-confidence votes in lower chamber of parliament proposed by lawmakers, after the president pushed the bill

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A man walks past an uncollected garbage pile next to the cafe ‘The President’ in Paris Tuesday. Pic/AP

A man walks past an uncollected garbage pile next to the cafe ‘The President’ in Paris Tuesday. Pic/AP

Paris police said Tuesday that 234 people were arrested overnight in the capital mostly for setting fire to garbage in the streets, after France’s parliament adopted a divisive bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 pushed through by President Emmanuel Macron.

The French government survived two no-confidence votes in the lower chamber of parliament, proposed by lawmakers. The no-confidence motion filed by a small centrist group and supported by a leftist coalition received 278 votes in the National Assembly, falling short of the 287 needed to pass. Another motion at the initiative of the far-right won just 94 votes. With the failure of both votes Monday, the pension bill is considered adopted. The bill still faces a review by the Constitutional Council before it can be formally signed into law.

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