The specific environmental senator has been maintained “behind” from the party after the article by Mediapart published in July, then suspended on 30 November “the time for the Executive Office of EELV to organize in turn an internal procedure ” She leaves the party without waiting for the conclusion of this procedure.
Le Monde with AFP
Ecologist Senator Esther Benbassa, excluded from the Senate Ecologist Group on 14 September, announced Tuesday, December 14 that she left the Europe Europe Ecology-Les Greens (EELV), wishing to “find his freedom of speech and action ” Ms. Benbassa explains in a statement, published on his Twitter account, have been dismissed Tuesday in court of his requests for appeal against his exclusion from the ecologist group.
Press release: I announce my departure from EELV. https://t.co/5fynspcioh
The Senator of Paris had been excluded from his group after accusations of moral harassment against former collaborators, in a survey of Mediapart . “The order devotes parliamentary groups such as out-of-law areas where it is possible to overcome all common rules,” says Benbassa.
Concerning his departure from EELV, the senator specifies having been maintained “behind” of the party “for a period of almost five months” after the article by Mediapart published in July, then suspended on 30 November “the time for The Executive Office of EELV to organize an internal procedure in turn “. Without waiting for the conclusion of this procedure, Ms. Benbassa announces Leelv “today”.
“It’s a device I leave, nothing else”
It says she remains a senator in Paris and “do not break with political ecology, nor renounces his fights”. “I do not leave the activists either,” she points out.
“It is a device that I leave, nothing else, a device ready to let go of a vulnerable civil society, loyal and constant in its commitments, on the basis of a press article written exclusively to Load and absence, to date, of any administrative report, any repository in court and any conviction, “finally develops the senator, before tackling his party within four months of the election presidential election:
“A direction that trembles in front of a simple press article and does little of the principles based on a rule of law, does it deserve to reach the power? to judge it”
“After hearing the senator and in accordance with their rules of procedure, the senator.rice.s have decided to exclude Esther Benbassa from the parliamentary group from September 15,” said the Ecologist Group, Solidarity and Territories in September , in a statement. “M me Benbassa did not contradict a part of the testimonies and it has, to date, not deemed appropriate to submit a complaint in defamation against these accusations,” the parliamentarians have to justify their decision.
In his investigation, Mediapart reported the testimonies of eight former collaborators and six former students that the elected used at the Practice Ecole of the High Studies. All evoke a climate of “terror” established by the senator, makes pressures, blackmail to employment and systematic humiliation, often at emails, individual or collective, and SMS consulted and retranscribed partly by Mediapart.
As a result of this management, the employees’ turn-over has been very important, since more than eighteen parliamentary assistants have been used in two terms, counting the online media. In a statement of “support for victims of harassment”, the CGT union of parliamentary employees pointed out that “the profession, because of its connection with the policy and relations of power, is often too tainted by this type of violence” .