This Monday July 17, 2023, Elisabeth Borne was confirmed at Matignon by Emmanuel Macron. However, the Prime Minister is due to reshuffle her government by the end of the week. If there is still doubt about the presence or not of such and such a minister within it, for Marlène Schiappa the question no longer arises: the Secretary of State in charge of the Social and Solidarity Economy and Associative Life will probably be replaced by the end of the week.
However, Marlène Schiappa is a faithful of the first hour of macronism. Arrived in the government six years ago, she successively occupied the position of Secretary of State in charge of Equality between women and men, Minister Delegate in charge of Citizenship to the Minister of the Interior and, currently, Secretary of State in charge of the social and solidarity economy and associative life. She was not afraid to get involved during dark moments of the Macron five-year term (yellow vests crisis, Benalla scandal), nor to occupy the media space. A bit too much maybe…
Already in 2017, then in charge of Equality between women and men, Marlène Schiappa was criticized for her positions. On Twitter, for example, she publishes photos of herself, crossing at night, in a summer dress, the district of La Chapelle in Paris, known to be a hotspot for street harassment, with the caption: “The laws of the Republic protect women, they apply at any time and in any place”, reports Le Figaro. One example among many. Time passes and the controversies fade away. But this year 2023 is truly the year of all scandals.
Criticized for her involvement in the management of the Marianne Fund, launched following the assassination of Samuel Paty to subsidize republican associations, she is caught up in an investigation for embezzlement. The Senate accuses him of a “major communication operation” and that the Marianne Fund has become “a burden attached to the allegory of the Republic”, reports franceinfo.
Added to this is his interview for Playboy magazine, strongly criticized by the opposition but also by the presidential majority. “It’s a ball and chain for us. She has to go to the next reshuffle”, castigates a member of Renaissance for Le Parisien. Which could well be granted.
