France is experiencing strong social instability after the pension reform announced by the Government. But, in recent days, the great controversy involves a rule and the cover of the French edition of Playboy.
The French Secretary of State, Marlène Schiappa, was interviewed and posed for the men’s magazine, provoking harsh criticism from left to right and even from the executive itself.
Schiappa, 40, responsible for the area of social economy, solidarity and associative life, posed in a white dress and spoke about women’s rights, politics and literature in the interview she gave.
For the editor of the magazine, quoted by Agence France-Presse, Schiappa is the ruler “most compatible with Playboy” because she is committed to women’s rights and understands that the magazine, founded in 1953 in the US, does not it is only for old chauvinists, otherwise it can be an “instrument of the feminist cause”.
Schiappa’s photographs in Playboy prompted Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne to call the minister, where she criticized his appearance on the magazine’s cover, saying it was “totally inappropriate” in the current context of anti-government social protest.
In recent weeks, several French cities have been the scene of violent protests against the pension reform unilaterally approved by the Macron executive. The decree approved by the President provides for an increase in the retirement age from 62 to 64 years from 2030.
The left-wing opposition criticized the government’s communication strategy, after Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt appeared in the LGBTQIA+ magazine Têtu and Macron also gave an interview to the children’s magazine Pif Gadget.
“We are in the middle of a social crisis and I have the impression that there is a smokescreen between Têtu, Pif Gadget and Playboy,” lamented feminist MP Sandrine Rousseau on BFMTV. “France is going off the rails,” criticized the left-wing leader and former presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Source: TSF
