Miss France: Minister Élisabeth Moreno pins "has been" rules

The Miss France competition is definitely under fire from critics. After the feminists, it is around the Minister Delegate for Gender Equality Élisabeth Moreno to tackle the most famous French beauty contest. The minister estimated Thursday that the rules governing the Miss France contest were “has been” and wished that “they change”. “I think Miss France is part of our traditions, of our culture. What questions me are the rules, which I find completely has-been, ”she said, guest of the political program“ Face aux Territories ”on TV5 Monde, Ouest-France and Nice-Matin.

“Why can't a Miss France be ironic? Why is a candidate for Miss France who poses topless to fight against breast cancer is excluded? Why couldn't a Miss France be a mom? She asked herself. “I think the rules are completely a thing of the past and it's high time they changed,” she said.

On Monday, a feminist association (Dare feminism) announced that it had taken legal action, arguing that this “sexist” competition violated labor law.

In its "annual report on the state of sexism in France", in 2019, the High Council for Equality between Women and Men (HCE), a consultative body responsible for advising the government, described the competition Miss France of "archaic caricature".

He had denounced in particular the requirement made to the candidates to be single and childless and never to have been married.

"It is a joke to say that women are degraded!"

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Alexia Laroche Joubert strongly defended her program in the columns of the Parisian, even praising a "feminist" program.

“In the show from now on, we will see more participants tell each other, explain their motivations to understand what they want to do with it.

The Miss is not just a girl who rips into two pieces!

And it's a joke to say that we debase women!

She had stressed.

The election of Miss France 2022 is to be held on December 11 at the Zénith in Caen.

Miss Normandy, Amandine Petit, student in Caen, was elected Miss France 2021 in Puy-du-Fou last December.