Many politicians have reacted to the exit of Emmanuel Macron who declared in “Le Parisien”: “The unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off. And so we will continue to do it, until the end. . This is the strategy “.
LR presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse said on Wednesday she was “outraged” by Emmanuel Macron’s words wanting to “piss off the unvaccinated”, like many opposition officials.
“I was outraged by the words of the President of the Republic”, assured Cnews Valérie Pécresse according to whom “it is not for the President of the Republic to sort between the good and the bad French”. Calling to “put an end to the five-year term of contempt”, she pleaded for “a calm governance, not feverish”, “which brings together, which appeases”.
The LR deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti, denounced on France Inter “a strategy of rupture and division” as part of an “electoral strategy”, while the president of LR Christian Jacob considered that “a President of the République cannot say “this kind of thing.”
“When we have to convince, bring together, we do not insult!”
“Reuniting France”, laconically opposed the socialist presidential candidate Anne Hidalgo, while the LFI candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon denounced a “staggering confession of Macron”: “the vaccination pass is a collective punishment against individual freedom”. The PCF candidate Fabien Roussel blasted him with an “unworthy and irresponsible statement”, because “when we have to convince, bring together, we do not insult!”
“This vulgarity and this violence of the President of the Republic prove that he has never considered himself the president of all the French. It is a political fault but also a serious moral fault!”, Contended the candidate RN Marine Le Pen, while acting party chairman Jordan Bardella criticized the “obsession” with “feeding chaos” of an “immature arsonist” president.
The far-right candidate Eric Zemmour sees in it “not only the cynical declaration of a politician who wants to exist in the presidential campaign”, but also “the admitted cruelty, assumed, which parades in front of despised French”. “On April 10, let’s get rid of this capricious teenager who dishonors his office!”, Launched the candidate Debout France Nicolas Dupont Aignan.
“I understand his idea and I share it quite willingly” and on the term, it is “colloquial language” but “everyone has understood”, for his part commented the former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on France 2 .
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