An investigation was opened Sunday after damage to the permanence of the deputy in Nice. About 280 demonstrators then gathered in front of the office to demand that Ciotti vote for motions of censure against the government.

"What is unbearable is to put pressure on elected officials to vote. I hear the anger of the French, it is the result of the mistakes of this government, but I will not give in to any intimidation, no threat, no pressure," Ciotti told BFM Côte d'Azur.

The MP, in favor of the pension reform, said that "the vast majority" of LR deputies will not vote for the motions of censure presented Monday after the government's decision to use 49.3 to pass its highly contested pension reform.

While some members of his group - "very few", according to him - could vote in favour of one of these motions against the government, he did not respond on an exclusion from the party of those who deviate from the line advocated.

The movement "can harden, and that's why the government must be more attentive, more attentive, must treat less in particular the social partners by contempt, as it has done until today," he added.

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