Covid-19: Emmanuel Macron tightens the screw on vaccination so as not to mortgage the recovery
Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday compulsory vaccination for nursing and non-nursing staff in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and retirement homes.
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Emmanuel Macron called for mobilization on Monday evening during his speech.
The President of the Republic has chosen to deploy an arsenal of strong measures to force the French to be vaccinated and thus avoid breaking the momentum of economic recovery.
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Just after his speech, Emmanuel Macron received the parliamentarians of the majority at the Elysee.
Parliamentarians who, like all French people, had listened to it on television.
And for one of them, it was very clear: "
The president wanted to strike hard
" to convince the recalcitrant to go and get vaccinated.
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Even beyond compulsory vaccination for caregivers, it is a question of making "
the alternative to vaccination more expensive
" by conditioning access to public places to a "health pass", also putting an end to free access. tests to encourage people to stop using them for convenience.
926,000 appointments made Monday evening
Emmanuel Macron tried an electroshock mixed with constraint, even mentioning the possibility of achieving compulsory vaccination for all, advocated by some like François Bayrou.
He chose to privilege the freedom of the vaccinated.
The Doctolib platform for making vaccine appointments was also saturated after the speech by the President of the Republic.
The owner of the site announced on Tuesday that 926,000 appointments had been made Monday evening.
Momentary or lasting effect?
We will see it in the next few days.
In the meantime, the government will present a bill as early as next week to implement the announced measures which may be the subject of appeal by opponents.
An entire program
Emmanuel Macron also mentioned his economic and social objectives, because the presidential campaign is coming and Emmanuel wants to display a record, that of the recovery plan in particular, and an ambition: to make “
work and merit
” his priorities. A way of reaffirming its cardinal values for, he said, "to
regain control of our destiny
".
A fate that passes through the pension reform which Emmanuel Macron says he has not given up but whose implementation he conditions the improvement of the health situation.
A way all the same to send it back to the presidential campaign, of which he sketches the spirit by evoking a "
united, civic, united, responsible France
".
A vaccinated France too.
A
sine qua non
condition
not
to go through the reconfinement box and jeopardize the economic recovery that Emmanuel Macron hopes to amplify by the end of his mandate.
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