On Saturday, anti-vaccine mandate proponents took to the streets of France for the 12th weekend in a row.
The French vaccine mandate requires citizens to show a QR code demonstrating proof of COVID-19 vaccination or of a negative PCR test conducted within 72 hours in order to access restaurants and entertainment venues, take public transportation, and board planes and trains.
The month of October also marked a turning point in the government's rollout of the mandate.
While the number of protestors who showed up this past weekend was lower than the last, the remaining opponents of the mandate are fervent and determined.
While these demonstrators seek a political solution to their protests, there are few French political figures who have come out in support of the anti-vaccine mandate base.
Eric Zemmour, the French conservative essayist and journalist who is considering a run for President and surging in the polls, has said he is generally opposed to the vaccine mandate but mostly because he believes it's an insidious way of requiring mandatory vaccinations for all.
Polls conducted at the end of the summer suggested that only 37 percent of the French people supported anti-vaccine mandate protestors, significantly lower than the amount of support the "Gilets Jaunes" movements of 2018 and 2019 received.
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