To “bag” them unvaccinated decided the president Emanuel Macron 3 months before the presidential election in France, provoking the reaction of the parliament, at the time when the government is trying to pass a bill which will impose the use of a vaccine pass in order to address the coronavirus.
“I really want to punch the unvaccinated. And so we will continue to do so, until the end. That is the strategy, “said Macron in an interview with the French newspaper Le Parisien. «I will not imprison them, I will not vaccinate them by force. And so we have to tell them: from January 15 you will not be able to go to a restaurant, you will not be able to have a drink, you will not be able to have a coffee, you will not be able to go to the theater, you will not be able to go to cinema… “, the French president explained.
His remarks immediately provoked reactions in the National Assembly and forced the speaker of parliament to suspend the body’s work at midnight due to the chaos caused. However, the deputies calmly continued their discussions on the vaccination pass, according to the APE-MPE.
“No health crisis justifies this phraseology”, commented o Bruno Retagio, head of the Les Republicains Senate (right).
The candidate for the presidential election of the “Unruly France” party (radical left) Jean-Luc Melanson described Macron’s statements as “shocking”. “Does the president understand what he is saying? The World Health Organization recommends ‘persuasion instead of coercion’. And he? ‘Let’s bag more’. “Shocking,” he commented on his Twitter post.
For the Marin Lepen leader of the far-right National Alarm party, a president should not speak in this way. The guarantor of the unity of the nation insists on dividing and states that he wants to make the vaccinated second-class citizens “.
Vaccine pass
Discussions in parliament on the vaccine pass bill, one of the pillars of the Macron’s government health policy, were suspended from midnight Monday to Tuesday, at a time when it seemed a given as a majority of lawmakers supported it. Yesterday, after the discussions on the bill started again, MEPs agree to increase to 16 years, from 12 originally mentioned in government plan, the age after which one is required to have a vaccination pass. The discussions are going to continue today.
As the covid-19 epidemic is on the rise again in France, the government aimed to finalize the bill by the end of the week in order to enter into force on 15 January. The government spokesman Gabriel Atal defended an “absolutely necessary” bill, at a time when more than 19,600 patients with covid-19 are being treated in hospitals on Monday. Moreover, yesterday more than 270,000 new cases were announced for the previous 24 hours, a record number.
France has one of the highest vaccination rates among EU countries, with more than 90% of the country’s adults have received two doses of covid-19 vaccine. With the vaccination pass, the government wants to put even more pressure on the approximately 5 million unvaccinated French over the age of 12.
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