Third day of strikes and protests held in France over Macron pension plan - The Guardian

The government said 757,000 people took part in more than 200 street demonstrations on Tuesday.

The figure was lower than two previous demonstrations in recent weeks.

In heated scenes in parliament on Monday, ministers at first struggled to be heard as opposition on the left shouted that they had brought “chaos” to the country.

Rachel Keke, who is the first cleaner to sit in parliament after winning a seat for the radical left’s La France Insoumise in June, won a standing ovation from the left’s benches after a speech accusing government ministers of being cut off, never having done a difficult, physical job and not understanding what it is like “to wake every morning with an aching back”.

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The far-right leader Marine Le Pen announced that several of her female lawmakers had received suspicious and fraudulent voicemail messages to their phones during the debate, telling them that their child was in hospital.