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French minister Marlene Schiappa has been criticised by members of her own party after appearing on the cover of Playboy magazine.
A minister since 2017, Schiappa appeared on the magazine’s cover to accompany a 12-page interview on women’s and LGBT rights. Schiappa, who is currently France’s Minister of Social Economy and Associations, was photographed for the cover wearing a white dress.
Schiappa is a long-time women’s rights activist and was appointed the country’s minister of gender equality in 2017. In that role, she successfully spearheaded a new sexual harassment law that allows for on-the-spot fines for men who whistle at, harass or follow women on the street.
His appearance drew criticism from fellow politicians, including French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.
Borne challenged Schiappa about the coverage, telling him it was “not appropriate, especially during this period,” CNN affiliate BFMTV reported Saturday, citing a source close to the prime minister.
France is currently going through a political and social crisis triggered by French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to push through controversial pension reforms despite widespread public opposition.
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“We are in the midst of a social crisis, there is the question of maintaining order, there are people between life and death, and I have the impression of being behind a smokescreen,” Sandrine Rousseau, an elected environmentalist and women’s rights activist, told BFMTV on Friday.
French politician Jean Luc Mélenchon, who came third in the 2022 presidential election, criticized both Schiappa’s appearance and French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to give an interview to children’s magazine Pif Gadget this week.
“In a country where the president speaks in Pif and his minister in Playboy, the problem would be the opposition. France is going off the rails,” Mélenchon tweeted on Saturday.
Schiappa responded to his detractors in a tweet on Saturday: “Defending women’s right to control their bodies is everywhere and all the time. In France, women are free. With all due respect to the detractors and hypocrites.”
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin defended Schiappa in an interview with French news channel CNews on Sunday, calling her a “woman of character.”
“I wanted to say that Marlene Schiappa is a courageous politician who has her own character and style, which is not mine, but which I respect,” he noted.
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