Emmanuel Macron faces no-confidence votes as pressure builds from pension protests
Since becoming president in 2017, Emmanuel Macron often has been accused of being out of touch. But government officials are hoping to survive a no-confidence vote because the opposition is divided.
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. Instead, he finds his leadership contested, both in parliament and on the streets of major cities.
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