Under fire from critics.

While several political figures have qualified as a dictatorship the fact of making vaccination or anti-Covid tests compulsory to go to the theater, to the restaurant, or to travel, Emmanuel Macron defended this Thursday the extension of the health pass.

"We have people today who, with a lot of political cynicism, use the fear of some or the confusion that can arise on certain subjects, the false information that is conveyed, to make it a political project", declared the leader. of the State in front of the press, after the arrival of the 18th stage of the Tour de France in Luz-Ardiden (Hautes-Pyrénées).

"I think this cynicism must be bitterly fought because it puts the country at risk," he continued.

For the President of the Republic, "there are debates on all subjects, we live permanently but if we empty words of their meaning, the risk we run is to threaten our democracy itself" .

"All your freedoms are maintained"

"There is a political use" of the word dictatorship "by some", but "it is a civic duty, whatever political opinions one has, whether one is a politician, journalist, intellectual or others, ( …) Never to fall into the use of these words ”, he insisted, stressing that“ some have lent themselves to it at other times, with great ease ”.

"No, a dictatorship, that's not it," he hammered.

"It's not a place where all your freedoms are maintained, where the entire electoral cycle has been maintained, (...), where you can exercise your rights, where we reimburse all your tests, where the vaccine is free, (...) ) it's not called a dictatorship, I think the words have a meaning ”.

"There are oppositions that exist, which I fully understand, which I respect, (...) but when you have the weapons, you cannot deliberately decide not to use them against this virus", he said. He insists.

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  • Covid 19

  • Dictatorship

  • Health pass

  • Health

  • Coronavirus

  • Anti-covid vaccine

  • Emmanuel Macron