French President Emmanuel Macron has resorted to the most colourful language

His most recent words have been described as vulgar and divisive after he used slang to explain how he plans to treat unvaccinated people.

"I really want to piss them off, and we'll carry on doing this - to the end," he said.

There are only three months to go to the French presidential election, and it appears that silly season is really kicking in.

Macron’s opponents have already dismissed his words as unpresidential and belonging more to a street brawl on a deserted ghetto backroad than on the mouth of their leader.

Already the subject of vaccination is rife with controversy, MPs suspended debate on a law restricting the unvaccinated from taking part in much of France’s public life.

Now the president’s language has added to the controversy in the National Assembly as debate was halted for a second night running so politicians could switch to discussing Macron’s language.

One opposition figure in parliament said Macron’s words were "unworthy, irresponsible and premeditated".

Although the said legislation on barring the unvaccinated from public life is still underway and expected to be passed this week, vaccine opponents are furious and several French politicians have said they have received death threats over the matter.

Around Europe, mandatory vaccinations are being rolled out. In Italy, for instance, the government announced it would make vaccination against Covid-19 a must from February 15 for every citizen over the age of 50.

Macron, however, said he would not "vaccinate by force" the remaining five million French who had not had a dose.

He said he will get people vaccinated by "limiting as much as possible their access to activities in social life".

"I won't send [unvaccinated people] to prison," he said. "So, we need to tell them, from 15 January, you will no longer be able to go to the restaurant. You will no longer be able to go for a coffee, you will no longer be able to go to the theatre. You will no longer be able to go to the cinema.”