“The President of the Republic sometimes speaks in a sustained manner, sometimes in a familiar manner. It is he who will say if he regrets. The words of Edouard Philippe, this Wednesday morning on France 2, are weighed. Asked about the sentence pronounced by Emmanuel Macron in front of the readers of the Parisian (“I want to piss off the unvaccinated”), the former Prime Minister estimated that the Head of State, “like many French people, would like that all those vaccinated do not suffer the repercussions due to the fact that 8 to 10% of French people are not ”.
No frank criticism of the man with whom he shared the executive couple for three years, therefore. On the other hand, Edouard Philippe says he is “rather in favor” of compulsory vaccination against Covid-19. “In 2017, we decided to make a large number of vaccines compulsory for children, and that is giving good results,” he said.
The vaccination pass, a “disguised vaccination obligation”
For several weeks, the government has been putting forward practical reasons for opposing compulsory vaccination. “If tomorrow I say: for all adults, you must be vaccinated. How do we control it and what is the sanction? This is the real subject. Am I going to force people to go get vaccinated? Imprison them and then vaccinate them? You will tell me : you are a weird person you … “, Also retorted Emmanuel Macron in his interview with the Parisian.
The vaccination pass is however a kind of “disguised vaccination obligation”, Olivier Véran estimated on December 18. Words that had reacted a good part of the political class and even within the government. The vaccination pass is not a “disguised vaccination obligation”, estimated Jean-Michel Blanquer, Minister of National Education, the next day.