"For me, feminism is deciding to do what I want," said Diane Leyre, elected Miss France 2022 at the end of an evening rich in glitter (to relive here).

A very attended ceremony (7.3 million viewers on average) but also very criticized, especially on the issue of labor law as explained Friday

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, but also on the place of women and sexism.

"As a woman I want to show that we can be Miss France and a feminist", explained the new miss.

Invited by AFP to react to the remarks of the Minister for the equality of women and men Elisabeth Moreno deeming "completely has been" the rules of Miss France, this holder of an international trade diploma replied: "If c 'is has been.

We love the has-been.

It is still the rendezvous of the year Miss France (…) Miss France is and will remain Miss France.

It has always been like this.

We've loved it like this for years.

So why change it for now?

".

"I felt more feminist than ever"

The young brunette woman of 1m77, holder of an international business diploma, was chosen 50/50 by viewers of TF1, which broadcast the ceremony live, and by a jury of seven personalities chaired by Jean-Pierre Pernaut . Asked again this Sunday morning by BFMTV on the criticisms surrounding the competition, Diane Leyre continued on the same line. “I have never felt so feminist as when I went on stage alongside the other candidates. I think when you're between 18 and 24, pick up the microphone, walk around in swimsuits in front of millions of viewers and decide to take the power of our life, that's what it is to be feminist, ”she said. "Everyone is free to have their own opinions, but mine is my own, and last night,I felt more feminist than ever, ”she added.

Miss France 2022 was also invited to respond to the complaint filed by Dare feminism!

against the Miss France committee.

“I left that in the hands of justice.

I have read the different opinions, each in his opinion.

But having spoken about it with the other candidates, none of us felt obliged to be there, did not feel held back by the rules of Miss France, no, we were totally at ease and proud of be on stage, ”said Diane Leyre.

"Outdated rules (...) which can be discriminatory"

This competition, reserved for single women with a minimum height of 1.70 meters, and aged under 25, is the subject of growing debate.

“I like the Miss France contest (…) It's a fun, glamorous contest,” Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot said on BFMTV on Friday.

"We need a little lightness" and these young women "are far from being vases," she said.

But the Minister of Equality between Women and Men Elisabeth Moreno, she again deplored Friday "outdated rules (...) which can be discriminatory".

She spoke in a brief interview she gave to AFP after meeting the misses in Caen.

Elisabeth Moreno regretted that for example a "widowed woman or a woman who is already a mother cannot apply".

"Why couldn't a Miss France be ironic, be a mother or pose topless to fight cancer?"

», She had already wondered in October.

Elisabeth Moreno has since received in the ministry Alexia Laroche-Joubert, the president of the company Miss France, a subsidiary of the production company Endemol.

And she was “almost certain” on Friday that the rules “will change”.

"There are criteria to change to adapt to the times"

Alexia Laroche-Joubert has since announced, during the presentation of the 2022 competition, that the candidates would for the first time be paid for the final but not for the rehearsals.

“There are criteria to change to adapt to the times (…).

I think that the single status is surely obsolete, ”she also admitted.

The participation of transgender people is "possible" and "was part of the discussions" with Alexia Laroche-Joubert, also assured Elisabeth Moreno this Saturday on Europe 1. For the Minister, the competition nevertheless deserves to be supported because "it has been a way for many women to emancipate themselves ”.

But he continues to get angry.

The main municipal opposition group (EELV-PCF-DVG) in Caen was indignant in early December that Mayor LR did not communicate his cost for the city.

According to EELV municipal councilor Rudy L'Orphelin, the competition, already organized in Caen, had "cost 200,000 euros" in 2010 to the city.

The group of elected officials highlighted “the profits made by the organizing company” of the competition and “welcomed the legal actions initiated” by “Dare feminism”.

The industrial tribunal of Bobigny must look on June 21 on the procedure launched by the association which accuses the competition of violation of labor law.

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