French Secretary of State Marlene Schiappacaused controversy France for posing and interviewing for Playboy erotic magazine, deemed “inappropriate” in the current context of social conflict.
Schiappa, 40, who is responsible for the area of social and solidarity economy and club life, posed in a white dress and spoke in the adult edition of the magazine, which was published on Thursday, April 6th.
“The defense of women’s right to control their own bodies is always and everywhere. In France women are free,” tweeted the secretary over the weekend, who is also an adult book author and very active on social media.
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For the magazine’s editor, Schiappa is the politics “most compatible with ‘Playboy'” because she champions women’s rights and understands that Playboy is no longer a magazine for old chauvinists, but an instrument of feminists thing can be”.
But the Prime Minister Elizabeth BorneHe called Schiappa and told him that, according to people close to him, he found his appearance in the erotic magazine “completely inappropriate” in the current context of tension due to an unpopular pension reform.
France is witnessing largescale protests against raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 from 2030 and raising the contribution to 43 from 2027 for the right to a full pension, a reform the Liberal president wants Emmanuel Macron accepted by decree.
The leftwing opposition criticized the government’s communications strategy after Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt appeared in LGBTQIA+ magazine Têtu and Macron gave an interview to children’s magazine Pif Gadget.
“We are in the middle of a social crisis (…) and I get the impression that there is a smoke screen between Têtu, Pif Gadget and Playboy,” lamented ecofeminist Congresswoman Sandrine Rousseau on BFMTV.
“France is falling apart,” said left leader JeanLuc Mélenchon. / AFP