Julien Bayou resigns as National Secretary of EELV

POLITICS – “It’s Kafka in the age of social networks”. Pushed out after accusations of moral harassment on an ex-partner, Julien Bayou announces that he is resigning from his post as national secretary of Europe Ecology the Greens (EELV).

In a press release shared this Monday, September 26, the ecologist deputy from Paris evokes a “untenable situation” and one “deleterious context” which leads him to make this decision. He also adds that he resign ” of the Presidency of the environmental group in the National Assembly “.

“I am accused of facts which are not presented to me, of which my accusers-ices say that they are not criminally reprehensible, and which I cannot therefore defend myself since they refuse to hear me”, explained Julien Bayou, specifying that he will hold a press conference at 4 p.m. this Monday. ” It’s Kafka in the age of social networks “, also reacted the one who is now the ex-number one of the Greens, in a letter addressed to the militants.

Accused of psychological violence by an ex-companion, Julien Bayou had been implicated by Green MP Sandrine Rousseau on France 5 after the first echoes of this affair during the summer. She said she had “received for a long time” this “very depressed” woman and who would have even made a “suicide attempt” after “behaviours likely to break the moral health of women”.

A testimony against the number one of the party who had also pushed for the opening of an investigation by “the investigation and sanction unit against sexual and gender-based violence” of the Green Party.

Exit door

” This situation is untenable and the deleterious context seems to prevent any discernment, at a time when society is rocking and seeking the point of balance for this so necessary feminist revolution. “, added Julien Bayou, stressing that his decision” did not question neither his mandate as a deputy nor his present and future commitment “.

The day before this resignation, it was Yannick Jadot, former EELV presidential candidate in 2022 who pushed for him to be ousted as party leader. The MEP estimated on LCI that ” for the serenity of the investigation and the investigative work that is carried out by the unit that we have set up”it would be “of good intelligence, both that he is leaving his position as co-president of the group in the National Assembly, and that we are accelerating his withdrawal from the national secretariat of Europe ecology-The Greens”.

Already suspended since September 20 from his duties as co-chairman of the office of the environmental group in the Assembly, Julien Bayou is pushing environmental training a little further into the crisis, the day after the rejection by the Greens of an internal referendum to simplify the organization and adapt EELV to the “conquest of power”which was supported by the party leadership.

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