"People no longer believe Emmanuel Macron," said philosopher Michel Onfray on Tuesday on Europe 1, while protests against the health pass brought together more people in the streets of France last Saturday than the previous Saturday.

For Michel Onfray, this can be explained by the lack of a "clear line" from the Head of State during the health crisis.

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Saturday's protests against the health pass brought together more people than the previous weekend in France.

Invited Tuesday on Europe 1, the philosopher Michel Onfray explained this situation by the lack of a "clear line" in the policy of the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, against the Covid-19.

"At one point, people no longer believe Emmanuel Macron and the conspirators are very happy to be able to say 'how could we believe someone who has been walking us for months?'", Said the author of the book "L 'Art to be French' published last May.

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"A dissatisfaction which manifests itself as soon as possible"

"There is no clear line with Emmanuel Macron. His' at the same time 'is that at one time he said' no mask 'and after' compulsory mask ',' no vaccine pass' then ' vaccine pass' ", argued Michel Onfray. "At one time the AstraZeneca vaccine was great, then one day we were told 'oh no, not at all, you shouldn't take it'. Then the next day we were told 'yes, yes, you can take it. again '", he added.

Therefore, for the philosopher, "there is a kind of dissatisfaction with Emmanuel Macron" which "crystallizes" anger.

Michel Onfray cites for example the yellow vests, replaced or now accompanied by "antivax" and other skeptics vis-à-vis the health pass.

Another example given by the philosopher: the "considerable number of people who abstained in the last elections".

"There is discontent that manifests itself as soon as possible," he insists.

"You don't create a republic with a snap of the fingers"

And the vaccine duty defended by the president does not bring society together enough, according to Michel Onfray. "You do not create a republic with a snap of the fingers," he said. "We recreate a republic (...) because we are a leader who knows how to lead, that is to say when we are respectable and respected." But for Michel Onfray, this is not the case "when we do things like being photographed with a middle finger in the West Indies or being filmed with YouTubers who do somersaults at the Elysee Palace". “At some point, you are (then) no longer credible when giving orders,” he concluded.