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The decision of the representative of the Social and Solidarity Economy and Associative Life portfolio to be photographed and grant an interview to the erotic magazine has created controversy even in the French government itself.
Are things in France for a member of the government to pose in Playboy? In the midst of the endless protests against the reform of the pension system, of feminist demands and a falling popularity of the Executive, there are those who ask the question.
The answer in any case Secretary of State Marlène Schiappa is in the affirmative, since she has decided to show herself in the erotic magazine, to which she has given a long interview.
Schiappa, 40, responsible for the Social and Solidarity Economy and Associative Life, poses in a white dress and talks about women’s rights, politics and literature in the issue of the magazine for adults, which will appear on Thursday.
“Defending the right of women to dispose of their own body is done always and everywhere. In France, women are free,” the official media tweeted over the weekend, also the author of erotic books and very active on the networks social.
Defending the right of women to dispose of their bodies is everywhere and all the time.
In France, women are free.
With all due respect to the backsliders and the hypocrites.#Playboy— ???????? MarleneSchiappa (@MarleneSchiappa) April 1, 2023
For the magazine’s editor, Schiappa is the “most compatible with ‘Playboy'” politician, because she is committed to women’s rights and understood that Playboy is no longer a publication for old macho men, but can be an instrument of the feminist cause”.
This opinion is not shared by everyone, starting with the Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, who called her on the phone to tell her that she considered her appearance in the magazine “totally inappropriate”, in the current context of tension over an unpopular pension reform. depending on your environment.
France registers massive protests against the delay of the retirement age from 62 to 64 years by 2030 and the increase of the contribution to 43 years by 2027 to collect a full pension, which the liberal president Emmanuel Macron adopted by decree.
“You have to subscribe to Playboy”
The left-wing opposition thus criticized the government’s communication strategy, after Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt appeared in the LGTBI-oriented magazine Têtu and Macron spoke with the children’s magazine Pif Gadget.
“We are in the midst of a social crisis (…) and I have the impression that there is a smoke screen between Têtu, Pif Gadget and Playboy,” lamented ecofeminist deputy Sandrine Rousseau on BFMTV. “France is going off the rails,” according to leftist leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“In a country where the president speaks in Pif and his minister Schiappa in Playboy, the problem would be the opposition. France is going off the rails,” tweeted the leader of La France Insumisa, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the PCF, ironized: “It is not enough to subscribe to Pif to know the intentions of the Government, you also have to subscribe to Playboy…”