Macron to speak after no-confidence vote hurdle

PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron will give a televised interview, his office said on Tuesday, after his government fended off two no-confidence votes in parliament after a controversial pensions overhaul that has sparked mass protests.

Macron's government used a constitutional measure to adopt the reform, which pushes back the retirement age to 64 from 62, without a vote in the lower-chamber National Assembly, sparking claims of a "denial of democracy" by angry demonstrators.