Minister Emmanuel Macron: Some 234 lawmakers backed the no-confidence motion, short of the 289 votes required in France lower house of parliament, according to Deutsche Welle. The bill frees up labor rules and includes diverse measures, including those making it easier for employers to lay off workers, to foster competition among professionals such as auctioneers and notaries, and to extend store opening hours into evenings and Sundays and Detractors of Vall pro-business policy, mainly opposition conservatives, but also rebels within the Socialist party, failed on Thursday to muster enough votes to topple the government. Valls had forced through the bill authored by Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday without a direct parliamentary vote by invoking rarely used decree powers. That prompted Thursday opposition censure motion.
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