Emmanuel Macron says he “really wants to piss off the unvaccinated”

An exit that provokes a torrent of political reactions. While the bill replacing the health pass into a vaccine pass is still under debate in the National Assembly, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron does not mince his words to mention the some five million eligible French people, but not vaccinated against the Covid-19. “We put pressure on the unvaccinated by limiting for them, as much as possible, access to social life activities”, defends the Head of State in the columns of Parisian to be published this Wednesday, January 5.

“Besides, almost all of the people, over 90%, have joined. It is a very small minority that is resistant.”, assures Emmanuel Macron, before attacking her. “That one, how do we reduce it? We reduce it, sorry to say it, like that, by pissing him off even more”, he says. “Me, I’m not for pissing off the French. I plague the administration all day long when it blocks them. Well, the unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off. And so we will continue to piss off them. do it, until the end. “

“I’m not going to put them in jail, I’m not going to forcibly vaccinate them”, argues the President of the Republic during an interview with some French people in Parisian. “So you have to tell them: from January 15, you will no longer be able to go to a restaurant, have a coffee, go to the theater, to the movies”, continues the Head of State, refusing to prevent unvaccinated patients from being admitted to intensive care, “because a caregiver is looking at someone who is sick, not where they are from or what they are.”

The words of the President of the Republic, officially not yet a candidate for a second term, did not fail to make the contenders for the Elysee react. “Does the President control what he says? Appalling”, lamented, on Twitter, Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI). “A President shouldn’t say that, […] Emmanuel Macron is unworthy of his position “, castigated for his part Marine Le Pen (RN). “President, I will stop pissing off the French”, promised Eric Zemmour (Reconquest).

Any “Health emergency does not justify such words. Emmanuel Macron says he has learned to love the French, he especially likes to despise them”, estimated Senator LR Bruno Retailleau

Potential future candidate on the left Christiane Taubira, for her part, lambasted “shocking and violent words”.

Invited on LCI this Tuesday evening, Yannick Jadot (EELV) regretted that the Head of State “from vaccination a referendum for or against Macron”. “It’s a political mistake”, he judged. “These are not words that a President of the Republic should make”, also regretted on our antenna Fabien Roussel (PCF).