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The rebellious France MEP and campaign director of the presidential candidate believes Thursday that the vaccination pass “will rob people who are not vaccinated”.
If Jean-Luc Mélenchon wins the presidential election, “not only will we not use” the vaccination pass “but we will repeal it”, assured Manuel Bompard, campaign director of the candidate La France insoumise, Thursday, January 13 on franceinfo. The bill containing the introduction of the vaccine pass was adopted early Thursday morning in the Senate, after its vote in the National Assembly. “What does the World Health Organization say on the issue of vaccination? That it is better to convince than to coerce”, he justified, adding that “the government is doing exactly the opposite” of what this organization recommends. “The vaccination pass will rob people who are not vaccinated, while I think we need support policies”, he developed.
He wondered about some differences that exist with other countries. “How is it, for example, that in certain European countries, in Spain for example, we reach 100% of people vaccinated in the over 80 years, of which we all know that they are people at risk, whereas we are not able to do it in France? “. According to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), which is an agency of the European Union, in early January 2022, 100% of people aged 60 and over in Spain had indeed received at least one dose of the vaccine. against 93.7% in France.
According to Manuel Bompard, if there is such a difference, it is “because there was an incentive policy [en Espagne]. We went to meet people who did not want to be vaccinated and we convinced them that it was useful to do so. Just because we took a big stick to hit them on the head, didn’t mean they didn’t want to. “