It was a departure that took place via a vitriolic press release.
A few weeks after being accused of harassment by her former collaborators, following which the senator of Paris Esther Benbassa had put herself "in withdrawal" then excluded from the environmental group in the upper house on September 14, this one announced Wednesday her departure of the party.
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All parliamentarians - including those who (m) 'excluded - will at least now be aware of the fragility of their status within their own group: they can be excluded at any time under any conditions
", she launches in a press release.
Since November 30, the parliamentarian was also no longer part of the party's executive board.
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It is a device that I am leaving, nothing else, a device ready to let go of an elected official from civil society, loyal and constant in her commitments, on the basis of a press article written exclusively on behalf of and in the absence, to this day, of any administrative report, of any filing of legal complaints and of any conviction,
”she deplores.
In its investigation, Médiapart reported the testimonies of several students and former collaborators that the elected representative employed at the Practical School of Higher Studies.
Many of the latter spoke of a climate of pressure, job blackmail and regular humiliation.
In her
press
release, Esther Benbassa also specifies that she "
does not leave either the activists
" and "
her commitment which is theirs
", while questioning a "
leadership that trembles in front of a simple press article and which pays little attention to the principles that make up the rule of law.
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