While the number of Covid-19 contaminations has exceeded 330,000 in the past 24 hours in France, the executive is no longer taking tweezers with the 10% of French people recalcitrant to the vaccine. By asserting to the newspaper The Parisian that its strategy, with the vaccination pass, is ” piss off the unvaccinated “, President Emmanuel Macron forces his rivals to position themselves and throws himself into the bath of the presidential campaign.
It is a shattering descent into the arena of the presidential campaign. With his outrageous statements against the unvaccinated, which had the effect of a political bomb in France, the head of state draws all the light and crushes the debate.
Besides, the oppositions are not mistaken. For the Communist deputy Sébastien Jumel, Emmanuel Macron becomes, in fact, a candidate. ” By pronouncing these strong words, Emmanuel Macron decided to enter the campaign, he is no longer the president of all the French, he is the president of a camp, of a clan », Tackle the elected representative of Normandy. ” It’s a strategy to enter the campaign », Agrees the former macronist, now environmentalist, Matthieu Orphelin.
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The “speak-truth”
No more candidate than yesterday, defends the majority. For the deputy of La République en Marche (LaREM) Ludovic Mendes, the president simply chose to speak truthfully. ” It’s a shocking statement, but not shocking. These are words often said by caregivers, by part of the population “, Assures the parliamentarian before referring to the unvaccinated” blocking hospitals and health services “Which would need” other patients “. ” He maybe said out loud what a lot of people whisper He adds.
Trump or Zemmour in the text? ” We are far from it », Retorts the walker,« because we don’t divide, we don’t insult “. A question to ask five million unvaccinated French people.
An electoral calculation
Probably convinced that the vaccine recalcitrant will not vote for him, Emmanuel Macron poses as the leader of the citizens ” responsible “, In front of the candidate of the right Valérie Pécresse, whose position vis-a-vis the health crisis has been blurred in recent days, in particular by the dispersed vote of the LR deputies on the vaccination pass.
The French president also reactivates, in passing, the duel with those he calls ” the extremes “, From right and left: Marine Le Pen, Eric Zemmour and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who criticize the vaccination pass and would be less dangerous rivals for him in a possible second round next April.
In short, by ostracizing the unvaccinated, Emmanuel Macron is forcing his rivals in the presidential election to choose their camp. Even if it means falling into caricature.
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