After his remarks which made a strong reaction, the Head of State remains straight in his boots. His “responsibility”, he said on Friday, was “to sound the alarm” regarding the vaccination.
He persists and signs. The head of state, who told a handful of readers of the Parisian his desire to “piss off” the unvaccinated, does not budge an iota. On the occasion of a press conference this Friday at the Elysee Palace on the French presidency of the European Union, Emmanuel Macron justifies his remarks by his “responsibility” of “Sound the alarm” on the need for vaccination.
“To be a citizen is to have rights and duties and these are first and foremost duties, repeated the Head of State, alongside the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. The concept of freedom which is brandished today by some of our compatriots, to say I have the freedom not to be vaccinated, (…) it stops where the freedom of the other is hampered, where the life of the other may be endangered. “
“Irresponsibility”
Criticized for the vulgarity of his remarks by political oppositions, the president does not express any mea culpa. “You can get emotional over forms of expression that seem familiar, that I fully assume, he said, before adding: I am moved by the situation in which we are. The real divide of the country is there. When some use their freedom, that becomes irresponsibility, a slogan. ”
“Not only do they endanger the lives of others but they restrict the freedom of others”, underlined Emmanuel Macron, who added that he could not “Accept it.”