Marine Le Pen said on Saturday January 9, on the sidelines of a trip to Portugal, "
ready to be vaccinated
" against Covid-19 when it is her turn, while her supporters are among the most reluctant to want it. make.
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"
I would be ready to be vaccinated, but I am not a priority
", declared on RFI the president of the National Rally, on the sidelines of a trip to support a small ally candidate for the Portuguese presidential election, André Ventura, boss of Chega .
“
I said
(in)
December that I won't get the vaccine until my doctor receives the vaccine studies.
(...)
Today we have the studies
”, justified the presidential candidate.
According to an Ifop poll carried out in early December, 61% of French people did not intend to be vaccinated against Covid-19 and 80% of RN sympathizers.
At the beginning of January, according to the same institute, the French were now 49% not to intend to be vaccinated, but with a reluctance still at 72% among RN sympathizers.
The far-right leader, however, clarified on Saturday that she "
preferred, if
(she has)
the choice, to deal with a traditional vaccine
", made from inactivated viruses (polio, flu), attenuated (measles, yellow fever ), or quite simply proteins called antigens, rather than a messenger RNA vaccine, i.e. based on genetic information.
Marine Le Pen also stressed that "the
elderly, who are indeed fragile,
(should)
be vaccinated as quickly as possible to precisely avoid suffering the severe form of the virus
".
If she gets vaccinated, the head of the RN, however, leaves the French "
free
" to do so or not, and above all does not want compulsory vaccination, an option rejected by the government.