Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has said he expects the debate to harden on the right, and accepts that some Socialist deputies may abstainfromvoting.
Among those who supported the vote, many expressed satisfaction that China had decided to stand up to the rest of the Security Council rather than simply abstainfromvoting.
Pressure for disclosure of the entire ethics case against Gingrich is also coming from his fellow Republicans, notably Rep. Christopher Shays of Connecticut, who says he will abstainfromvoting for Gingrich as speaker in January without all the information.
The NAPF - which represents pension funds controlling about a fifth of the shares on the London Stock Exchange - has asked its members to abstainfromvoting on pay awards at a series of annual general meetings this year.