“It was not an insult. It was in a context,” said the candidate president, adding: “As long as we are in the acute phase of the epidemic, we will continue to put constraints. “
Le Monde and AFP
On displacement in Denain, in the North, Emmanuel Macron went to meet the inhabitants, who arrested him on his pension reform, his choices made during the health crisis as well as on his small sentences, like the one. From an interview given in early January where he assumed his willingness to “emmerder the non-vaccinated” by the measures put in place. “Me, I’m not to emmerder the French. I’m plague all day against the administration when she blocks them. Well, the non-vaccinated, I really want to emmender them. And so we will continue to do it, until the end. That’s the strategy, “he said in This interview with readers of the Parisian .
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During an exchange with two women who focused on Vaccination against Covid-19, Monday, one of them criticized him for saying that the duties were above the rights. You have says “Emmerder the non-vaccinated”, we are sub-citizens. We still took the mouth “.
“I never said” sub-citizen “,” the head of state defended, then returning to his remarks on the non-vaccinated. “I said, in quotes, affectionately,” he explained, then asking to “put the sentence back in context”. “One of my predecessors, Georges Pompidou, said,” We are not there to emmender the French. “We put constraints [to fight against the CVIV-19], I am here to emmerder the non-vaccinated, But it was not an insult, he continued. It was in a context. “The president candidate then estimated:” As long as we are in the acute phase of the epidemic, we will continue to put constraints. “
” I want to convince, so perhaps completing my project “
m. Macron made his first round trip, where he arrived in front of the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, held by the “Insush” Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Decided to “convince” those who did not vote for him, the president candidate has also said, Monday, to “enrich” and “complete” his project, stating that he intended to discuss very quickly with the parties leaders who have called to vote for him.
“I do not want to do as if nothing had happened, I heard the message of those who expressed extreme voices, including those who voted for M me le Pen . I know that people will vote for me to bump. I want to convince, so perhaps completing my project, “he said, like a hand stretched to the other parties, including the” insou “.
“I am ready to discuss the pace and the complements” of my program, he added. “Did we answer quite quickly and strong? No. But does it have to be filled again,” he said, adding to “explain the social answer” of his project with Credo to “refound the social pact between Social and Capital”.
“There is no longer a republican forehead”
“As there is no longer a republican forehead, I can not do as if he existed,” he added. He said he was now planning to discuss with “each and each” of the leaders of the other parties. “I will hear them because they wear a part of truth”, but “I do not believe that this clarity goes through appliance agreements. These choices will depend on the exchanges I have with each and everyone, but I do not want not preempt [these] discussion [s]. “
He also denounced “the facilities and caricatures” on his project, recognizing “feeling in the former steel city, which voted 40% for Marine Le Pen, more than anger, a lot of worries on the political context, the particular lives “. “Marine [Le Pen], she tries to have gone to the soil of poverty, revolt and anger,” and that, you do not hear him, “said him during a long exchange an elector of Jean Lassalle in the first round.