A wave of controversy has arisen in France in these hours after the interview in which President Emmanuel Macron said he wanted to “bother” the unvaccinated – “emmerder”, the term used by the Elysée leader.
“The unvaccinated, I really want to get them inc ….. And we will continue to do so, until the end. This is the strategy,” he told The Parisian. “An irresponsible person is no longer a citizen”. The president added that he will continue to pursue the unvaccinated “relentlessly”, preventing them from going to a restaurant, bar, cinema or theater.
His statements sparked a chorus of criticism from the right and left opposition. “Is the president able to control himself when he speaks? The WHO says you have to persuade rather than coerce. And he? He says he ‘wants to break the c ….’ even more. It’s demeaning,” he wrote in a tweet the leader and presidential candidate of France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Melenchon.
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by our correspondent Anais Ginori
Criticism from Greens and Gaullists
“Macron is unworthy of his function,” Rassemblement National leader and Elysée candidate Marine Le Pen wrote on Twitter, adding that “a president shouldn’t say those things” because he is the guarantor of unity. of the nation “and” insists on dividing it. ”
Criticism also came from the right-wing polemicist Eric Zemmour of the Gaullist Elysée candidate, Valerie Pecresse, who entrusted the entourage with the task of declaring that Macron “divides the country”. Even the Communist presidential candidate, Fabien Roussel, highlighted in a tweet the “unworthy and irresponsible declarations of the President of the Republic”. Similar condemnations were expressed by representatives of the Greens.
The release has relaunched the debate on compulsory vaccination, which the president, however, has returned to exclude.
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