When the men’s magazine Playboy went on sale on Saturday, French Minister Marlène Schiappa posed on the cover. In a twelve-page interview, she talks about women’s rights and LGBTQ issues. Her participation has received a lot of criticism – including from the Prime Minister. French Social Economy Minister Marlène Schiappa is under fire after posing on the cover of men’s magazine Playboy, CNN reports. In the magazine, she is included in a twelve-page long interview about women’s rights and LGBTQ issues. Schiappa has been a minister since 2017, when she became the country’s first minister for gender equality. According to the channel, she has contributed to the new law that makes it possible to fine men who harass or follow women on the street. Her appearance in Playboy has stirred emotions among her political colleagues. French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne is one of them. According to sources for French BFM TV, Borne must have confronted the minister and called her participation “inappropriate”. The opposition: “France is derailing” The politician Jean Luc Mélenchon, who came third in the 2022 presidential election, last week criticized both Marlène Schiappa’s participation in Playboy and President Emmanuel Macron’s participation in the children’s magazine Pif Gadget. “In a country where the president speaks in Pif and his minister in Playboy, it is the opposition that would be the problem. France is derailing,” he wrote on Twitter. Marlène Schiappa’s interview in Playboy has also been praised. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said in an interview with French CNews that he respects her decision. – She is a brave female politician who has her own character and style, he says. The newspaper went on sale on Saturday. See reactions and pictures from the newspaper in the player above.
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Anger after the minister’s posing for Playboy: ‘France is derailing’
