The president no longer takes tweezers. Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday, in
an interview with the Parisian, be determined to “piss off” the unvaccinated “to the end” by “limiting for them, as much as possible, access to social activities”.
“The unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off. And so we will continue to do so, until the end. That is the strategy, ”declares the Head of State, while the text on the vaccination pass gives rise to a heated debate in the Assembly.
“In a democracy, the worst enemy is lies and stupidity”
To a question from a reader of Le Parisien stressing that the unvaccinated “occupy 85% of resuscitations”, which leads to a postponement of operations, Emmanuel Macron replies that this remark “is the best argument” for the government’s strategy and that, “in a democracy, the worst enemy is lies and stupidity”. “Almost all people, more than 90%, have adhered” to the vaccination and “it is a very small minority that is resistant”, he adds.
“That one, how do you reduce it?” We reduce it, sorry to say it, like that, by pissing it off even more. Me, I’m not for pissing off the French. I plague the administration all day long when it blocks them. Well there, the unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off, ”he continues. “I’m not going to put them in jail, I’m not going to forcibly vaccinate them. And so, you have to tell them: from January 15, you will no longer be able to go to the restaurant, you will no longer be able to take a cannon, you will no longer be able to go for a coffee, you will no longer be able to go to the theater, you will no longer be able to take a cannon. no longer going to the movies… ”, explains the Head of State.
Immediate reactions, left and right
He was speaking as MPs resumed the debate on the vaccination pass in an electric mood after a surprise vote refusing to continue debates Monday night through Tuesday. LFI presidential candidate and MP Jean-Luc Mélenchon was one of the first to respond to the interview with the Parisian. “Does the President control what he says?” WHO says “convincing rather than coercing”. What about him? “Emmerder more.” Dismaying, ”he said in a tweet.
For Marine Le Pen, the RN candidate, “a President should not say that. The guarantor of the unity of the nation persists in dividing it and assumes that he wants to make the unvaccinated second-class citizens. Emmanuel Macron is unworthy of his position ”. “President, I will stop pissing off the French. The outgoing President, he speaks openly of pissing off a category of French, ”also immediately tweeted the other far-right candidate Eric Zemmour.
At LR, Bruno Retailleau estimated that no “health emergency justifies such words. Emmanuel Macron says he has learned to love the French, he especially likes to despise them. We can encourage vaccination without insulting anyone or pushing for radicalization, ”he said.
Macron “wants” to be a candidate but is not decided
“I want” to be a presidential candidate, the head of state also added, adding that his decision was being “consolidated” but not yet completely certain.
“There is no false suspense. I want to. As soon as there are the sanitary conditions which allow it and that I will have clarified this subject, in myself and in relation to the political equation, I will say what it is ”, he assured . “This decision is consolidated in my heart. I need to be sure to be able to go as far as I want, ”added the Head of State, questioned by readers of the daily.