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French government to face no-confidence vote over labour law

A man holds a placard reading, "49.3 is a scandal" during a demonstration in Nantes, France, to protest against the government's planned labour law reforms

France's Socialist government is to face a no-confidence vote on Thursday after it bypassed parliament and rammed through a labour reform bill that has sparked two months of massive street protests.

The team of embattled President Francois Hollande resorted to the controversial manoeuvre on Tuesday in the face of fierce opposition from within his own party that doomed the bill in parliament.

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