In an interview with “Parisien”, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron declares himself determined to “piss off” the unvaccinated “to the end”.
President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday, in an interview with “Parisien”, to be decided to “piss off” the unvaccinated “to the end” by “limiting for them, as much as possible, access to activities of social life “. “The unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off. And so we will continue to do it, until the end. That’s the strategy,” said the head of state, while the text on the vaccination pass gave rise to a heated debate in the Assembly.
To a question from a reader of Le Parisien stressing that the unvaccinated “occupy 85% of resuscitations”, which leads to a postponement of operations, Emmanuel Macron replies that this remark “is the best argument” for the government’s strategy and that, “in a democracy, the worst enemy is lies and stupidity”.
“Almost all of the people, more than 90%, have adhered” to the vaccination and “it is a very small minority that is resistant”, he adds. “That one, how do we reduce it? We reduce it, sorry to say it, like that, by pissing him off even more. Me, I’m not for pissing off the French. I plague all day against the administration when it blocks them. Well there, the unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off, “he continues.
“I am not going to put them in prison, I am not going to forcibly vaccinate them. And so, we must tell them: from January 15, you will no longer be able to go to the restaurant, you will no longer be able to take a cannon, you You will no longer be able to go for a coffee, you will no longer be able to go to the theater, you will no longer be able to go to the movies… “, explains the Head of State.
He was speaking while the deputies had resumed the debate on the vaccine pass in an electric atmosphere after the surprise vote refusing the continuation of the debates on the night of Monday to Tuesday.
The LFI presidential candidate and deputy Jean-Luc Mélenchon was one of the first officials to react to the interview at Le Parisien. “Does the President control what he says? The WHO says” convince rather than coerce “. And him?” Piss off more “. Appalling,” he denounces in a tweet. For Marine Le Pen, the candidate of the RN, “a President should not say that. The guarantor of the unity of the nation persists in dividing it and assumes wanting to make the unvaccinated second-class citizens. Emmanuel Macron is unworthy of his office “.
“President, I will stop pissing off the French. The outgoing President himself speaks openly of pissing off a category of French”, also immediately tweeted the other far-right candidate Eric Zemmour. At LR, Bruno Retailleau estimated that no “health emergency justifies such words. Emmanuel Macron says he has learned to love the French, he especially likes to despise them. We can encourage vaccination without insulting anyone or pushing for radicalization” , he said.
A record of contaminations on Tuesday
France recorded a record of contamination on Tuesday with 271,686 cases recorded in 24 hours. The last record dates back to the end of December, with just over 230,000 new cases in one day. Over the past seven days, the average number of cases stood at 180,000. These figures testify to the magnitude of the current wave of the epidemic. This has been going on since the fall and was relaunched at the end of 2021 with the arrival of the Omicron variant, considerably more contagious than its predecessors even if its severity seems limited. In 24 hours, hospitals recorded 297 deaths. On the vaccination front, 76.9% of French people are fully vaccinated (51,833,129 people), and 78.6% have received at least one injection (53,003,727 people), according to the Directorate General of Health (DGS ).
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