During a visit to the main hospital in French Polynesia, Emmanuel Macron called on all Polynesians and all French people to be vaccinated.

And returned to the anti-health pass demonstrations.

"Each and every one is free to express themselves calmly, with respect for the other," he said.

Emmanuel Macron urged the Polynesians, but also all French people, to be vaccinated, by visiting the main hospital of the archipelago immediately after his arrival in Tahiti on Saturday evening (Sunday morning in Paris).

"I want to send out a very strong message to call on everyone to be vaccinated because we see it in all latitudes: when we are vaccinated, we are protected and we hardly broadcast any more, in any case much less, the virus ", declared the Head of State in front of the carers of the Hospital Center of French Polynesia. 

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He thus "welcomed" that France is preparing to pass "probably in the next few hours the milestone of 40 million first-time vaccinated", which did not seem possible "for several weeks".

"There is a strong acceleration, we must continue because there are still doses (of vaccine) available," he insisted.

Anti-health pass demonstrations: "Everyone is free to express themselves in peace"

Arrived from Tokyo, where he attended the opening of the Olympics, Emmanuel Macron also returned, in front of journalists, to the new day of mobilization of opponents of the health pass and / or vaccination which brought together more than 160,000 people, according to the Ministry of the Interior. "Each and every one is free to express themselves in peace, with respect for the other", he underlined. But "the freedom where I owe nothing to anyone does not exist" and this "rests on a sense of reciprocal duty".

"If tomorrow you infect your father, your mother or myself, I am a victim of your freedom when you had the possibility of having something to protect you and me. And in the name of your freedom you may go. be having a serious form (of the virus) and you will arrive at this hospital. It is all these personnel who will have to take care of you and perhaps give up taking someone else (...) that's not freedom, it's called irresponsibility, selfishness, "he argued.

He further called for the parliamentary debate on the health pass, which continued on Sunday, "to take place in peace and efficiency", "until we have a duly voted text which will be submitted to the Constitutional Council".