Protesters clashed with riot police in Paris, a day after a final parliamentary vote on the pension reform plan was abandoned. Two motions of no-confidence have been filed against President Emmanuel Macron’s government.
Fresh protests erupted in Paris on Friday evening, a day after President Emmanuel Macron and his government passed a contentious pension reform by decree, without a vote in the lower house of parliament, the National Assembly.
Several thousand demonstrators gathered in the capital’s Place de la Concorde, close to the Assembly building, facing up to a line of riot police, with some chanting “Macron, Resign!”
Clashes between authorities and protesters erupted later in the evening. Reuters TV broadcast images of police using tear gas to deal with the crowd disorder.
Earlier Friday, traffic, garbage collection and university campuses in the city were disrupted, as unions threatened open-ended strikes in response to the pension decree.
