The French government defended the fight this Tuesday “sometimes digressive” for women’s rights by his Secretary of State Marlène Schiappa, who raised controversy in France by posing and giving an interview to the erotic magazine Playboy.
“Marlène Schiappa is leading a fight in favor of women’s rights that no one can withdraw or contest, sometimes digressive, but effective and above all sincere,” government spokesman Olivier Véran said at a press conference.
The head of the social and solidarity economy and of associative life has been criticized an interview with Playboywhich will appear on Thursday, in full social conflict in France.
Schiappa, 40, and also an author of erotic books, poses in a long white dress and talks about women’s rights, politics and literature.
“Defending the right of women to dispose of their bodies is always and everywhere. In France, women are free,” the media official, who is very active on social networks, tweeted on Saturday.
Despite government support on Tuesday, the prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, called her over the weekend to say that she considered her appearance in the magazine “totally inappropriate”, in the current context of tension, according to the milieu of the head of the government.
France records massive protests against the delay of the retirement age from 62 to 64 by 2030 and the increase of the contribution to 43 by 2027 to collect a full pension, which the liberal president Emmanuel Macron adopted by decree.
Several government officials had already expressed their support for Schiappa, such as the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, or the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, who, taking up a famous song by Cookie Dingler, stated that “being a emancipated woman is not so easy”. .
The Left Opposition has criticized the government’s communication strategy, after Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt appeared in the LGTBI-oriented magazine Têtu and Macron spoke to the children’s magazine Pif Gadget.
Source: Clarin
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