French minister under fire for ‘Playboy’ cover photo

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(45) Violent protests against pension reforms are still raging in France. Nearly 1,100 uniformed men have been injured since mid-March, the government said. There were 2,579 arson attacks and 316 attacks on public buildings. This while a leading French politician now flashes in «Playboy». A diversion?

Marlène Schiappa (40) is Secretary of State to President Emmanuel Macron – and in the latest French edition of ‘Playboy’ not completely naked, but almost. Schiappa had himself photographed in seductive poses. This as a leading confidant of Macron and former Minister of Equal Rights.

Leaked photos show the popular minister in a long white open dress – with the caption: “A liberated minister.” The outspoken and revealing Secretary of State for Social Economy and self-proclaimed “sapiosexual” is the most suitable for “Playboy” among French government politicians, the editor of the erotic magazine has been quoted by the media.

Schiappa calls critics ‘hypocrites’

The ‘Playboy’ poses have been criticized in their own party. Schiappa’s immediate superior, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne (61), is said to have called the part-time model on Saturday and said “that was inappropriate”.

Schiappa’s party colleagues initially thought it was an April Fool’s joke, while the opposition cannot enjoy enough the ‘Playboy’ performance of the declared feminist. “We are in the middle of a social crisis, it is about maintaining order, there are people who are between life and death” – and Schiappa finds time for “Playboy”, Green MP Sandrine Rousseau (51) slandered, otherwise a allied ecofeminist, on TV station BFMTV.

Schiappa defended her ‘Playboy’ cover and called her critics hypocrites. “Defending women’s right to control their bodies is important anytime, anywhere,” she wrote on Twitter on Saturday. “In France, women are free. With all due respect to the apostates and hypocrites.”

«Woman with character»

The French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin (40) also rushed to help his fellow party member and called her a “woman of character” on the news channel “Cnews”. Marlène Schiappa, a courageous politician who has her own character and style, which is not mine, but which I respect.” (kes)

Source: Blick