Marlène Schiappa is now Secretary of State in charge of the Social and Solidarity Economy and Associative Life.
The break will have been short-lived. Faithful to Emmanuel Macron, Marlène Schiappa returns to government. She has just been appointed Secretary of State in charge of the Social and Solidarity Economy and Associative Life, as indicated in the press release from the Elysee Palace released on Monday to announce the post-legislative reshuffle. At the end of May, she was not part of the cast of the first Borne government.
Active on social networks, a good client of television shows, noted for her outspokenness, sometimes mocked for her blunders and inaccuracies, Marlène Schiappa remains one of the most media personalities of Macronie, defender of government action since 2017 During the first five-year term, the communicator, who in 2008 founded the blog “Mom works”, became the emblem of the fight for gender equality. From an associative activist, she became Secretary of State in charge of Equality between women and men and the fight against discrimination. A portfolio she held from 2017 to 2020.
For the first time, it holds a portfolio linked to the economy.
When Edouard Philippe ceded Matignon to Jean Castex in the summer of 2020, Marlène Schiappa saw her domain change and landed in Place Beauvau, in the shadow of Gérald Darmanin, as Minister Delegate for Citizenship. Its main mission: questions of asylum and the integration of foreigners. In particular, it coordinated the reception of Afghan refugees after the Taliban took power in the summer of 2021 and that of Ukrainians after the Russian offensive launched last February.
Swiss Army knife of the government, this time it holds a portfolio linked to the Economy, a first after the two previous ones linked to societal themes. It will depend on Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne. Indicating to have been “called”, Marlène Schiappa was delighted Monday afternoon to be back. “There is a feminization of historical political power, she declared at the microphone of LCI. It is important and strong for me to be in the government of the first female Prime Minister since Edith Cresson”.