The former delegate minister responsible for citizenship finds a place in the government after having left it in the wake of the presidential election.
Le Monde
She makes her comeback in the government. Marlène Schiappa was appointed Secretary of State for Social and Solidarity and Associative Life, the Elysée announced on Monday July 4. At 39, the former delegate responsible for citizenship finds a place in government after leaving it in the wake of the presidential election.
During the first term of Emmanuel Macron, M Schiappa was one of the faces of members of the government from civil society, where she held the post of Secretary of State responsible for the equality between women and men. Very present in the media, it had been the origin in 2019 of the Grenelle on domestic violence to fight against feminicides.
Forty measures, some of which have found a legislative translation, had been announced by the government, in the hope of provoking “an electroshock”, under the terms used by the Prime Minister of the time, Edouard Philippe. Among them, the port of antirapproach bracelets by violent men (generalized device in December 2020), accessibility twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week of 39-19, listening line for women victims of Violence (measure which will be effective at the end of June), the development of an assessment grid of the common danger intended for the police, the creation of 1,000 accommodation places for women in 2020, the Possibility for doctors to do without the agreement of their patient to issue a report to the prosecutor if they consider that she is in immediate danger … But feminist associations had deplored the lack of means allocated by the government to the fight against domestic violence.
a book on his experience in government
In the summer of 2020, after the replacement of Edouard Philippe by Jean Castex in Matignon, M Me Schiappa had been appointed Minister for Citizenship to the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin . She was notably responsible for asylum questions and integration of foreigners for two years, in which she had to, for example, coordinate the reception of Afghan refugees after the Taliban’s takeover and that of the Ukrainians more recently . Before leaving the government following the presidential election.
In recent weeks, she has notably published a new book entitled This is a good situation that minister? (Editions of the Observatory) which tells behind the scenes of these five years spent in government. She also expressed herself on the former Minister of Solidarity, Damien Abad, accused of attempted rape.
“The Minister of Solidarity has the supervision on the DGCS [Directorate General of Social Cohesion]. That means that, very directly, the whole communication of women’s right and women’s equality is attached To the Minister of Solidarity. Is a person who has been questioned in several rape cases (…) is justified in having the supervision on this direction? I think the question arises, “she said last week On BFM-TV. A few days after this statement, M
Me Schiappa therefore entered a government that leaves Mr. Abad.