French President Macron has drawn much criticism for saying in an interview that his intention is to thwart unvaccinated people. “Unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off. So that’s what we’ll keep doing, until the end. That’s the strategy,” Macron told the French daily. The Parisian. His comments come as the French parliament is discussing stricter legislation, so that a negative corona test is no longer sufficient to get a corona pass.
In France, almost 90 percent of the population who can get a shot is vaccinated. “Only a very small minority resists. How do we make that minority smaller? We do that by making them – sorry to say so – by making them even more pissed,” Le Parisien quotes Marcon. “I’m not going to send them to jail. I’m not going to force-vaccinate, so we have to tell them: from January 15, you can’t go to a restaurant, you can’t go out for coffee, you can’t go to the theatre, you can’t go to the cinema anymore.”
The opposition has criticized Macron’s statements. Marine Le Pen, the leader of the right-wing populist party Rassemblement National, tweeted that she doesn’t think a president should say these kinds of things. Emmanuel Macron is unworthy of his position. Senator Bruno Retailleau of the centre-right Les Républicains also thinks so. “No health crisis justifies this kind of language. Emmanuel Macron says he has learned to love the French, but it seems he likes to disdain them most of all.”
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