Riots in France challenge French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension plan for the country.

Oil workers stand in the tear gas thrown by riot police as they block the access to an oil depot in Fos-sur-Mer, southern France on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, (AP Photo/Daniel Cole).

Working class Frenchmen staged a massive protest across France in response to President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to pass a divisive bill that would increase the retirement age from 62 to 64 without a vote from the French Parliament. 

The move infuriated the country as 234 people were arrested overnight in Paris with smaller protest taking place in other cities around France which resulted in some degenerating into violence late Monday.

A series of political meetings on Tuesday planned by President Macron will have the prime minister, parliamentary leaders and lawmakers from his political party, President Macron is also expected to give a nationally televised speech on Wednesday – the first time since he passed the law to try and explain why he passed such a bill.




 

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