France It is engulfed in social and political conflict, which has led 3.5 million people to demonstrate demanding the withdrawal of pension reform and amidst violence.
isolated, fragile, top down, President Emmanuel Macron has asked his cabinet for unity, solidity and seriousness while 72 percent of French people have lost faith in him.
One of his ministers decided to interpret the request according to his prestige needs. The charming and feminist Marlène Schiappa, the Minister of Social Economy, will appear on the cover of the next issue of Playboy in France. At least it is believed that she will not pose nude.
Playboy minister
Schiappa, 40, a high-profile minister long seen as The feminist figure of Macronposed in a white dress with the French flag in the background, for the magazine founded in the United States by Hugh Hefner in 1953.
He gave an interview to the quarterly magazine, to be published in 12 pages. As if it were pure coincidence, it will appear on Thursday 6 April. The very day France will be paralysed for another nationwide union strike, calling for the complete withdrawal of the pension reform, which his government opposes. It is believed to be the largest protest rally.
This French writer, essayist and politician will answer questions about Playboy rights of women and the LGBT community, according to his assistants. She managed to infuriate Macron and his boss, Prime Minister Elizabeth Borne when she found out.
Her supporters say she deserves praise for turning the feminist struggle into a bastion of reactionary sexism. Prime Minister Eisabeth Borne you wouldn’t agree.
Borne, 61, the second woman to hold the post in France, telephoned Schiappa to inform him of the interview “It wasn’t entirely appropriateespecially right now.”
The prime minister, who is fighting to save her skin amid allegations of guilt over the widely detested pension reform, told media she he had reproached Schiappa.
The photos were taken a fortnight ago and will be on the cover of the magazine this week. But the negotiations lasted three months.
French Playboy editor-in-chief Jean Christophe Florentin has refused to admit whether she will pose nude.
And if I could say that he did absolutely amazing poses for a minister,” Jean Christophe Florentin told Europe 1 radio today.
the prime minister I did not know that her official had posed for Playboy until the news leaked.
Schiappa was immediately banned promote the interview in the media. But the feminist minister believes she has the right to do what she wants with her body. Some photos were leaked on BFMTV television and Le Parisien revealed that she posed for Playboy.
An inappropriate interview?
Schiappa’s initiative divided the cabinet, prompting accusations of demoting the ministerial post.
The interview and photos left Macron faced with claims that it is losing control of the governmentas protests continue over his plan to raise the statutory retirement age from 62 to 64.
Schiappa’s Hours they seem to be counted in Macron’s cabinet, which ignores the marches against him and He doesn’t want to talk to trade unionists.
A feminist biography
This Parisian born on November 18, 1982, married and separated from Cédrid Bruguiere, comes from a Lambertist Trotskyist family, which supports Jean Luc Mélenchon.
created the blog “Mom Works”which presents itself as the first network of active women, which becomes an association for parental equality and the reconciliation between professional and private life.
Under the pseudonym Marie Minelli, she wrote a collection dedicated to the vulgarization of sexual practices in the La Musardine edition. In 2001 you stand in the municipal elections of Mans, without joining the socialist party. He wins and becomes deputy mayor.
In the En Marcha movement, Marléne made several presentations of Emmanuel Macron at campaign venues in 2017. He elected her to the national commission of investitures, in charge of choosing candidates for legislative elections for the Republic in Movement. She then she was appointed secretary of state for equality between men and women.
THE Schiappa law, “for street harassment and extension of statute of limitations for sexual offenses against minors”, is probably his best known work. It was passed unanimously by the Senate and Assembly and promulgated in 2018.
Opinions on Schiappa
Many ministers, already reeling from the backlash against the pension plan, accused Schiappa of failing to heed the president’s appeal to his government show “seriousness”.
One said, “A lot of us couldn’t believe it! I thought it was April Fool’s Day early.” Another added: “Being a minister requires some dignity“.
Opposition politicians they rushed to smell the blood, establishing a parallel between Schiappa and Macron, 45, whom he surprised by giving an interview to Pif, a cartoon for children, last month to make announcements. Some have suggested that his communication methods indicated that Macron was lose the ability to discern.
Schiappa reacted to his critics, tweeting that it was necessary to “defend the right of women to do what they want with their bodies … anywhere, anytime.” In France, women are freewhatever the retrogrades and hypocrites say.”
Jean-Christophe Florentin, who edits the French version of Playboy, insisted that the magazine was no longer interested only in the centerfold.
“Playboy is not a soft porn magazine, but a quarterly publication of 300 pages (a mix of a book and a magazine), which is highbrow and hip,” she said. She added that “there were still some naked women, but they’re not on most of the pages.”
He said Schiappa had “got it It’s not a magazine for old menbut it could be a tool for the feminist cause.”
The “sapiosexual”
When Macron arrived at the Elysée in 2017 promising to revamp French politics, he appointed a cabinet of civil society figures, including Schiappa, an author and feminist activist then largely unknown to voters.
It has now become a household name across the country. Seldom out of the headlines, Schiappa once described herself as “a sapiosexual”: someone who finds intelligence sexually attractive.
Prisca Thévenot, a leading MP from Macron’s centrist coalition, has expressed her support for Schiappa. “Is Playboy magazine known for promoting women’s rights? I don’t think so. So it’s important that we can address these issues in this magazine as well. It’s not about posing nude but about address important issues“.
Marine Le Pen, 54, a candidate in the populist National Gathering in last year’s presidential election, said: ‘When the president gives an interview to Pif in the midst of a serious social and political crisis, ministers feel free to do what they want”. .
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, 71, presidential candidate of the radical left party France Insoumise, saw Schiappa’s interview as an attempt to divert public attention from the crisis of pensions.
“The Macron camp is at a dead end, in the greatest social conflict in history of the country in 50 years and they’re launching all kinds of little diversions,” he said.
Last month, Schiappa announced that she and Cédric Bruguière, her second husband, with whom she has two children, were divorcing after meeting the head of a French mutual health insurance company at the United Nations in New York in December.
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Source: Clarin
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