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mo4ch:>Macron blasted for saying many French want to get things ‘without proper effort’ | Mo4ch News

French President Emmanuel Macron criticized the citizens for unwillingness to make an effort as Yellow Vest protests against his economic policies entered their ninth week. The statement was met with fury.“Many of our citizens think that it’s possible to obtain something without proper effort”, he said on Friday . “Sometimes people forget that alongside rights there are also duties,” Macron declared. He also repeated this idea in respect to “French youth.”The president’s comments did not go down well with some French politicians from both left- and right, who lambasted him with sarcastic reactions.“At first I thought it was fake as the president should not pour fuel to the fire but it is so in fact”, Olivier Faure, one of the parliamentary leaders of the Socialist Party tweeted.Faure’s right-wing counterpart from the Repubicans Gaullist party Laurent Wauquiez also blamed Macron for flaring up tensions in such an inappropriate time.The chairman of the right-wing “Patriots” Florian Phil…