Two no confidence votes in the French government have failed. But that doesn't mean pension reform is moving forward without any more roadblocks, Sophie says. It has to go past the constitutional council first and there's also an attempt by the opposition to force a referendum on this. There are two decisions that that highest French court is now going to have to look at before it can be finally put onto the statute books.
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