His entourage speaks of “disruptive communication” by highlighting his “audacity”, but this is not to the taste of all the supporters of the head of state. On 12 pages of interview with the erotic magazine, the Secretary of State addresses subjects such as women’s freedom or literature.
The current Secretary of State in charge of the Social and Solidarity Economy and Associative Life gave a 12-page interview, complete with photos, to Playboy, an erotic men’s press magazine, which will be published on Thursday, April 6. This information was revealed on Friday March 31 by the newspaper The Parisian, and confirmed by the political service of franceinfo. After Emmanuel Macron in Pip Gadget this week, here is Marlène Schiappa in Playboy, next week. Suffice to say that this interview is enough to arouse controversy and unease, in the midst of a political crisis on pensions.
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Officially, Marlène Schiappa does not avoid any subject: women’s freedom, feminism, literature or politics. “She is the only minister capable of answering questions from a magazine like ‘PlayBoy’, praises his entourage who assumes “disruptive communication, audacity and panache” of the one who claims to be “the first female politician to make the cover” of this press title.
“Is she crazy or what?”a Macronist deputy chokes.
“A minister who ends up almost naked in the middle of pension reform, frankly it’s nonsense!”
A Macronist MPat franceinfo
The discomfort goes as far as Matignon because the services of the Prime Minister have taken the habit, for several weeks, of giving the green light to the slightest actions and gestures of members of the government. It is a way of locking in an already erratic communication and of avoiding slippages by even going so far as to reread the interviews of the ministers. Impossible to say if it really went under the radar. Its release is in any case planned on newsstands for next Thursday. Chance of the calendar or not, April 6 is the day of the next mobilization, at the call of the inter-union, against the pension reform.
Marlène Schiappa, a regular in political coups
It is almost a trademark for the one who claims her uncontrollable side and who is also considered one of the last media figures of macronie, identified by the population. In short, one of the rare political personalities of a government often perceived as too techno. At the beginning of March, Marlène Schiappa had already made a name for herself by formalizing her relationship – to avoid conflicts of interest – with Matthias Savignac, the president of MGEN, the general mutual fund for national education. The Secretary of State has since been relieved of certain files.
“We are among the crazy”, enrages a macronist. At the end of 2021, a video showing Marlène Schiappa with Instagram influencers at the Ministry of the Interior made headlines. His erotic books, some of which were written under pseudonyms, have also often aroused ridicule. “Macron will fire her, he will not accept ‘PlayBoy'”imagine one of his supporters, for whom this political stunt is one too many, posing in a magazine which, even if he is trying to get a makeover, remains very connoted.