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Macron to Force Through Pension Bill
After weeks of protests and weeks of debate in Parliament, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne yesterday announced that President Macron was invoking Article 49.3 of the French constitution in order to pass the Pension Reform Bill, which allows the government to force a bill through without a vote from lawmakers. The decision was reached after hours of meetings between Macron and several key government allies, and was announced mere minutes before the final vote was scheduled in the Assemblée Nationale. Though the bill had passed through the French senate, it was unclear if it would make it through the Assemblée.