French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday, January 4th, a new vaccination strategy in France. Its goal is to “anger” people who refuse to be vaccinated by blocking their access to restaurants, sports facilities, travel and other services and venues.
“I don’t mean to offend the French,” Macron said in an interview in Le Parisien. – while I would really piss off unvaccinated people. We are determined to do this to the end. This is our strategy, he added.
Finally, on January 5, the French parliament adopted legal solutions that allow only fully vaccinated people to obtain a health certificate. So far, anyone who submits a negative COVID-19 test result can obtain this type of document, the possession of which is necessary to access most public places and use public transportation for long distances. Instead of a health passport, the so-called vaccine passport.
So far, about 73.3 percent have been vaccinated. The population of France is out of a total population of 67.3 million French. According to Macron’s estimates, the preparation is almost 90 percent approved. Residents of the country on the Seine of all eligible for vaccination. A “small minority” is still resistant to vaccinations.
How do you reduce this percentage? We’ll do it by using, sorry to say, unvaccinated pee more – added.
According to the president, the French authorities should increase pressure on the unvaccinated by “limiting their access to social life as much as possible”. – Therefore, it must be announced that, as of January 15, they will not be able to enter a restaurant, order food, drink coffee in a cafe, or go to the theater or cinema – he added.
The opposition is angry
His political opponents criticized Macron’s words. “The president shouldn’t talk like that,” she wrote. Twitter Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Unity Party. She added that “Emmanuel Macron is not worthy of the position he occupies.” “The president wants to make the unvaccinated second-class citizens,” she added.
Macron’s statement reinforced the arguments of opposition politicians who oppose the introduction of new regulations.
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“I cannot support a bill aimed at angering the citizens of France,” said Christian Gacon, leader of the opposition Republican Party.
“Macron’s amazing confession,” Jean-Luc Melenchon, leader of the radical France Insoumise party, wrote on Twitter. “It is clear that the permissibility of vaccination is a manifestation of collective responsibility towards individual freedom,” he added.
The current president has been sitting in the Elysee Palace since 2017. Macron intends to run in the presidential elections this year, although he has not yet issued an official position on this matter.
