French Senate votes for Macron's pension plan, despite new protests

FILE PHOTO: French energy workers raise their hands in approval to vote on wether to continue their strike to protest against French government's pension reform plan in front of the French oil giant TotalEnergies refinery in?Donges, near Saint-Nazaire, France, March 10, 2023. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

PARIS (Reuters) -The French Senate on Saturday night adopted President Emmanuel Macron's unpopular pension reform plan in the wake of a seventh day of demonstrations that were not as large as authorities had expected.

One hundred and ninety-five members of the upper house of the French Parliament voted for the text, whose key measure is raising the retirement age by two years to 64, while 112 voted against.