French politician sparks controversy for posing for Playboy during protests

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Playboy, and the timing hasn’t gone down well with some of her fellow politicians. Marlene Schiappa, who is the current minister for the social economy and French associations, took part in a shoot for the magazine and gave an interview highlighting women’s rights and LGBTQ+ issues.

Schiappa has been vocal in campaigning for gender equality during her time in politics and led the way on a French law banning cat-calling and the harassment of women. Sign up to our new free Indy100 weekly newsletterThe Playboy shoot has sparked negative reaction among her peers, partly due to the timing.

France is currently experiencing riots and widespread unrest following Emmanual Macron’s reforms to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.

Some have called the recent shoot ‘disrespectful’. Green MP Sandrine Rousseau told TV channel BFM: “Where is the respect for the French people?“People who are going to have to work for two years more, who are demonstrating, who are losing days of salary, who aren’t managing to eat because of inflation. “Women’s bodies should be able to be exposed anywhere, I don’t have a problem with that, but there’s a social context. ”French prime minister Elisabeth Born has also reportedly told Schiappa that the cover is “not at all appropriate”.