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Vaccine: "Can we make personal convictions prevail over civic obligations?"

2022-01-07T06:13:57.064Z


INTERVIEW - Emmanuel Macron said he wanted to "piss off the unvaccinated", adding that they would be "irresponsible" and "more citizen". Constitutionalist Didier Maus returns to this notion of citizenship.


Didier Maus is a former senior official and president of the French Association of Constitutional Law.

Since 2017, he has chaired the historical society of the Fifth Republic

In an interview with the

Parisian

, the President of the Republic announced that he "

really wants to piss off the unvaccinated

".

Before adding, a little further:

“When my freedom threatens that of others, I become irresponsible.

An irresponsible person is no longer a citizen

”.

Words that unleashed the opposition, and in particular the candidate Les Républicains (LR) for the presidential election, Valérie Pécresse, who insisted that "

it is not for the President of the Republic to sort between the good and the bad French

" .

LE FIGARO

.-

How to define citizenship?

Didier MAUS

.-

According to the political doctrine of the Enlightenment, then of the Revolution, a citizen is a man or a woman who enjoys his responsibility and his freedom, participates fully in civic life and is aware of his rights and duties.

It is…

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Source: lefigaro

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