Government spokesman Gabriel Attal defended Emmanuel Macron’s controversial comments on the unvaccinated on Wednesday.
Government spokesman Gabriel Attal on Wednesday defended Emmanuel Macron’s controversial remarks about the unvaccinated, saying they were “well below the anger of a very large majority of French people”. “We are going to talk to each other frankly: who is screwing whose life today? Who is wasting the lives of our caregivers? (…) They are those who oppose vaccines”, declared Mr. Attal at the end of the Council of Ministers.
“We have always said things extremely clearly and we will continue to say them clearly, and I will tell you that the words of the President of the Republic seem to me to fall far short of the anger of a very large majority of the French in the face of this choice who is made to oppose the vaccine, ”he added.
The spokesperson was questioned by the press on the outcry provoked in the political class by the words of Emmanuel Macron who said, in an interview with the Parisian, to have “very want to piss off” the unvaccinated.
Gabriel Attal ruled out recourse to article 49.3
According to Gabriel Attal, there are “many” French people “who tell you that people who choose not to be vaccinated should not even be treated”. “We have always made the choice with our caregivers to treat all French people who were struck by the disease and we will continue to make this choice,” he said.
Faced with the health crisis, “we act, we explain and we assume,” added the spokesperson, citing Emmanuel Macron’s words during the council of ministers.
Gabriel Attal has also ruled out recourse to article 49.3 to have the bill on the vaccine pass, currently being discussed in the Assembly, adopted. “The question does not arise”, he said, because there is “a majority which is ready to vote it”.
“You have in front of oppositions who flee their responsibilities” by “preventing the debate from being able to take place, with small political blows to suspend the meeting, etc …”, he denounced. In a tweet, LFI presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon mentioned rumors “behind the scenes” on “the possible use of a 49.3” on this text. This article allows the government to pass a text without a vote, under cover of the rejection of the motion of censure that a tenth of the Assembly must table.
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