- A walker from the start, Marlène Schiappa has been promoted to the rank of Minister responsible for Citizenship in the government of Jean Castex, unveiled on Monday.
- She who worked for equality between women and men wants to continue to defend this cause in her brand new ministry. But what will it bring to the management of questions related to citizenship?
- No sooner had she been appointed than already critics were rising and pointing to a controversial collaboration with her new minister, Gérald Darmanin, accused of rape.
She was heard. And promoted. Media Marlène Schiappa becomes Minister Delegate for Citizenship, an award for this 37-year-old woman from civil society who took advantage of the emergence of the subject of Equality in society to reveal an acute political sense .
"I want to do more, wear more things," said at the beginning of June, in the columns of the Parisian, the one who was then the Secretary of State for Gender Equality and the Fight against Discrimination, sensing the near reshuffle .
“Protect the widow and the orphan in the name of the Republic”
Today Minister Delegate, this early walker was first referent of the candidate Macron on equality issues before being promoted to Secretary of State after his election. She shows unflagging support for the president and proves to be a pugnacious political commentator on TV sets. Despite a reduced portfolio and the smallest government budget, she managed to make a name for herself in a few months. Driven by the emergence of the global #Metoo movement, in 2018 it passed a law in its name which notably created sexist outrage, to penalize street harassment, led a “Tour de France for Equality” and launched, a year later, a "Grenelle of domestic violence" to "mobilize society", in particular on the question of feminicides.
“Chouchoute” by Brigitte Macron, the ambitious Marlène Schiappa made no secret of her desires to go up in rank. It is now done to Citizenship. A new ministry created during the reshuffle announced Monday. But what will the former first spokesperson for gender equality bring about these questions? "At 17, I dreamed of becoming a gendarme to protect" the widow and the orphan "in the name of the Republic," said (then tweeted) Marlène Schiappa during her taking office on Monday, on the occasion of the handover of power between Christophe Castaner and Gérald Darmanin place Beauvau, where his new ministry is attached.
In practice, it intends to take up issues related to secularism - it published in 2017 Laïcité, period (éd. De l'Aube) - and continue to defend the place of women in society. "At the Ministry of the Interior, we will be fully mobilized to protect women, so that gender equality is an integral part of citizenship, of secularism," she said during the handover with Elisabeth Moreno, who succeeds him at the State Secretariat for Gender Equality. "The President of the Republic and the Prime Minister wanted you to take care of citizenship issues in particular," the new Interior Minister, Gérald Darmanin, told him on Tuesday. Moreover, "there is a lot to do on the subjects of citizenship and secularism", confides to BFMTV the entourage of Marlène Schiappa. "We are often told" the secularism of Manuel Valls "," the secularism of such and such a personality or such and such an intellectual ". I think it is important for us to get out of the confrontation (…), to say to ourselves "this is the line which is that of secularism, period". Not open secularism, not benevolent secularism, not strict secularism, not offensive secularism, "she explained in 2017 on LCP.
A controversial supervisory minister
On social networks, the announcement of his appointment cringes, and many internet users point to the hypocrisy of the former Secretary of State for Equality between women and men, who worked to make it a great cause of the quinquennium. And who finds himself today under the tutelage of the new tenant of Place Beauvau, Gérald Darmanin, who is the subject of accusations of "rape", "sexual harassment" and "breach of trust". A complaint for rape which did not prevent his appointment to the Ministry of the Interior, entrusted the entourage of the Head of State, since Gérald Darmanin benefits today, like all litigants, from the presumption of innocence.
"Honored twenty years after becoming Minister Delegate Place Beauvau to the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin", she tweeted Tuesday.
At 17 I dreamed of becoming a gendarme to protect "the widow and the orphan" in the name of the Republic.
Honored 20 years after becoming Deputy Minister @Place_Beauvau to the Minister of the Interior @GDarmanin. At work! # Citizenship # Secularism
Cc @CCastaner @NunezLaurent pic.twitter.com/DX5AyIG5nn
What attract the wrath of many Internet users.
When you know your commitment to women and to victims of gender-based and sexual violence, how can you be honored to work for a man accused of rape and sexual harassment? Extremely disappointed.
- Queen E 👑 (@Estlle_) July 7, 2020Gérald Darmanin at the Interior, accused of rape, is therefore associated with Marlène Schiappa, former delegate for gender equality.
Wow.
Marlène Schiappa (who wanted to make the fight against violence against women the "great cause of the quinquennium Toussa Toussa") appointed Minister Delegate to Gérald Darmanin (accused of rape).
Youpi. #Ministerial reshuffle
And they are not alone. Socialist Senator Laurence Rossignol denounced on Tuesday the "formidable slap that Emmanuel Macron launches in the face of all those who have mobilized against sexual violence" with the appointments of Gérald Darmanin in the Interior and Eric Dupond-Moretti in the Justice.
The former Minister for Women's Rights said she was "puzzled" on Franceinfo about their "ability" to "make the fight against sexual violence one of their priorities", while "neither of these two men has so far shown the slightest interest in these subjects ”. The collective Dare feminism! for its part launched a petition to demand their resignation.
Justice
Castex government: accusations of "rape", suspected conflict of interest ... Darmanin and Dupond-Moretti already criticized
Politics
Castex government: The rape complaint against Gérald Darmanin "did not prevent" his promotion according to the entourage of the president
- Secularism
- Jean Castex
- gender equality
- Government
- Marlène Schiappa
- Reshuffle