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07:12, July 21, 2023
The Secretary of State in charge of the Social and Solidarity Economy and Associative Life, Marlène Schiappa, pinned for her management of the Marianne Fund, will leave the government. Marlène Schiappa, 40, also caused a lot of ink to flow when she appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine in April.
The Secretary of State for the Social and Solidarity Economy and Associative Life, Marlène Schiappa, pinned down for her management of the Marianne Fund, will leave the government, a source familiar with the matter announced on Thursday. The recurring information on his departure is “accurate”, we confirmed from the same source. Marlène Schiappa, 40, also caused a lot of ink to flow when she appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine in April, an initiative then described as “not at all appropriate” by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.
This figure of Macronie, a free spirit who speaks “cash” and subscribes to TV shows, has been a quasi-permanent member of government teams since May 2017. Before being in charge of the social and solidarity economy, she had above all imposed herself on public opinion as Secretary of State in charge of Gender Equality and the fight against discrimination (2017-2020), a function which enabled her to invest in particular in the fight against domestic violence and feminicides.
“My probity is intact”
But she ended up being swept away by the scandal of the Marianne fund. This device, which it launched in 2021 after the assassination of Samuel Paty to finance counter-speech to radical Islam, gave rise to suspicions of mismanagement and waste of public money.
Beaten at the beginning of July by a senatorial commission of inquiry devoted to this controversial file, the interested party however considered to have come out of the top of this affair: “My probity is intact”, she affirmed again Sunday to the daily Corse-Matin.
Towards a new political commitment?
“I’m already going to devote some time to my family,” she confided to the microphone of Europe 1 after the announcement of the reshuffle. “I think there are opportunities to get involved or to have a voice other than within the government. So, so we will see from the start of the school year how we are progressing in relation to that”, concludes Marlène Schiappa.