Her Deputy Minister French governmentMarlene Chiappa has come under fire from members of her own party after appearing on the cover of Playboy.

Siapa, who has been a member of the government council since 2017 and is currently the Deputy Minister of Social Affairs, appeared on the cover of the magazine wearing a white creation, thus accompanying a 12-page interview she gave about women’s rights and the LGBT community.

A longtime women’s rights activist, Marlene Chappa became the first Minister for Gender Equality in 2017, leading her post at the time with a new law against sexual harassment that provided life penalties for those who harassed women over the phone. or on the street.

🇫🇷 FLASH – Elizabeth Bourne called Marlene #Shyappa pour lui dire que son interview à #Playboy “n’était pas resp., surtout dans la période” actuelle. (BFMTV) #reformedesretraites #strikegenerale pic.twitter.com/BNY7dp5y25

— Mediavenir (@Mediavenir) April 1, 2023

Her appearance on the cover of the magazine provoked a reaction from her colleagues, as well as French Prime Minister Elisabeth Born. She herself called Siapa, noting that “it’s inappropriate, especially at the moment.”

It is noted that France is experiencing an acute political and social crisis due to the promotion of President Macron’s highly controversial pension reform.

Marlene Schiappa in Playboy: embarrassed majorita pic.twitter.com/M1P6sZxh8s

— BFMTV (@BFMTV) April 1, 2023

“We are in the midst of a social crisis, there is a law enforcement problem, people are between life and death,” said Sandrine Rousseau, a Green Party politician.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, co-chairman of the Left Party, criticized both Siapa’s appearance in the magazine and Macron’s own interview with children’s magazine Pif Gadget.

“In a country where the president expresses himself in Pif and his minister in Playboy, they say that the problem is in the opposition. France is going off the rails,” Mélenchon wrote on Saturday.

Dans un pays où le Président s’exprime dans Pif et sa ministre Schiappa dans Playboy le problème ce serait l’opposition. France has gone crazy.

— Jean-Luc Melenchon (@JLMelenchon) April 1, 2023

Siapa herself responded to the criticism with a tweet where she said: “Protection of the right of women to dispose of their bodies is everywhere and always. In France women are free. With all due respect to slanderers and hypocrites.”

Défendre le droit des femmes à dispose de leurs corps, c’est partout et tout le temps.
In France, les femmes sont libres.
N’en déplaise aux retrogrades et aux hypocrites.#Playboy

— 🇫🇷 Marlene Schiappa (@MarleneSchiappa) April 1, 2023

Source: CNN