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Bayou affair: the democratic bankruptcy of the Greens

2024-04-07T07:15:35.044Z

Highlights: EELV leader Sandrine Rousseau has resigned from the party. She was accused of behaving badly towards a former partner. Rousseau says there was nothing ‘criminally reprehensible’ about her actions. She is the first member of EELV to resign since the party was formed in 2000. The party has been in power since the 1980s, but has now lost its majority in the French National Assembly. The next election will be held in May 2015, with the aim of returning the party to power.


Accused of harassment by an ex-partner, deputy Julien Bayou resigned from EELV under pressure from some of his colleagues in the party.


Among the incessant alerts that light up my cell phone at regular intervals and darken my mood throughout the day, one of them surprised me more than the others this week: Julien Bayou, EELV deputy, resigns from his party and of the group in the National Assembly.

However, I believed this improbable affair was closed from a political point of view: the national secretary of EELV had been forced to resign at the end of 2022 after his unfortunate competitor at the head of the party, Sandrine Rousseau, spoke out live on “C à you” that he behaved badly towards a former partner during their breakup, who therefore tried to end her life. She admitted to journalists, with the microphone cut off, that this being the case, there was nothing “criminally reprehensible”.

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Source: leparis

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