DurumGallico
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Of course he is powerful enough to "piss off people" (the exact term he employed was "emmerder", like "shit on people" yeah that's presidential language of course).Does Macron have the power to do what he says? Do most people support his actions? Have you tried to understand why he says what he does?
In this country, people like you can quit their jobs if they don't like constitutionally valid vaccine mandates. Your body, your choice.
Theres no opposite power anymore in France, Assembly is fullfilled with "godillots" who would vote for any law the gov. is pushing, in fear of losing their place in the majority.
Senate has not the same dominant force (right party), but they have no real counterpower since all law they don't agree with is reviewed by both senate and assembly, they must find a middle ground and if not the assembly has the last word.
There's a constitutionnal council who should verify the constitutionnality of laws, but Macron and the gov. are literraly shitting on the council advice since they modify the laws weeks after they were validated by the council to add what the council cancelled, exactly like the sanitary pass ; council said it shouldn't be for daily activities, the law was approved like that, and like two weeks after the government changes radically the law and add daily activities with a decree that won't need to be validated by the council.
So yes Macron does pretty much anything he wants, that's a total denying of democracy and a vast majority of people are rising against that.
His sentence was pure political move and certainly not a mistake. One of the ministers said the interview he gave should have been released after the voting of the vaccinal pass law, and so it shouldn't have changed the vote ; only conforting his electoral base, nothing more than that and everyone saw that.
There's presidential elections this year, and yes he's trying to make vaccinated people agree with his politics and vote for him on next elections again everyone see that, of course unvaccinated are scapegoats for him and a nice tool to maintain his political base, and his sentence was certainly not a goofy thruth language fueled by honesty and goodwilling for the society. And yes beside that he revealed many times his sadistic tendencies and that's something french people can't stand for years. Yellow jackets, teachers, health pros, unemployed, far left and far right voters, young and old people, and now unvaccinated people pretty much every one got pissed off by this psychopatic sadist at one time or another during his mandate.
During his whole mandate, Macron has been hatred and unsupported by a vast majority of french people yes. As i said his power comes from the weakness of french counter power institutions and political parties weakness at the time of the election ; enough people voted for him to be elected against the "evilish fascist" Marine Lepen, and still he was elected with even not 25% of eligible voters, 22 or 23% if i recall well.
He never really had popular support despite the massive propaganda his close friend, owner of a huge part of french press made through his papers. I think he is easily the most hatred president from the fifth republic. Even got slapped by a dude during a meeting with popular crowd.
It's not how it works here, and again a lot of people are complaining against these restrictive laws, lot of vaccinated people too. Not everyone shits on unvaccinated people in France. And again medical secret, as i said not any employer can ask for your health or vaccinal status, except few exceptions like health professionals, police firemen etc... but in overall population it's not and will never be
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