This Friday, January 14, Elisabeth Borne was the guest of 4 Truths on France 2. On set, the Minister of Labor gave her opinion on the little sentence that everyone is talking about: that of Emmanuel Macron about the non-vaccinated.
Was Emmanuel Macron right to say that he had “really want to piss off the unvaccinated“? Since it was relayed by our colleagues from the Parisian, this little phrase uttered by the President of the Republic caused a lot of reaction, within the political class, but also among the French. This Friday, January 14, Jeff Wittenberg received Elisabeth Borne on the show The 4 Truths. On set, he wished find out what the Minister of Labor thought of Emmanuel Macron’s recent words about the unvaccinated. “Are you, like all your colleagues in the government and in the majority, convinced that he chose the right strategy last week by using this now famous expression? (…) Didn’t that upset part of the population, Mrs. Borne?“, questioned the journalist.
The one who was Minister in charge of Transport at the start of Emmanuel Macron’s five-year term then replied cash: “What I can tell you is that the president reacted to comments from readers who were opposite him and I think that today, the French want to get out of the epidemic“, she observed. And to emphasize: “There is a lot of annoyance with those who are antivax and so that’s what he was able to express, indeed very clearly“, explained Elisabeth Borne, probably in agreement with the speech of the head of state. On the merits, at least …
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“But was he right to do so? Because we feel that there is all the same a little embarrassment around him sometimes on the advisability of employing, when one is president, such words ?“, Jeff Wittenberg asked his guest. If he didn’t did not wish to comment on the form, Elisabeth Borne estimated that Emmanuel Macron “has translated what many French people think“: “It’s important that everyone get vaccinated, because we also have caregivers who have been under pressure for months. Those who are not vaccinated put pressure on intensive care units. So it’s important that we all take our responsibilities in the face of this crisis, that we do our best to make it last as short as possible.“, affirmed the Minister of Labor on the antenna of France 2.
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