The decision to withdraw him from the co-presidency of the group in the Assembly was taken "to give serenity to the listening unit, but that appears to be a sanction (...) and this sanction, she is not normal," said the MEP on the set of BFMTV.
"From the moment the cell has not returned its work, we do not have to sanction, when there is no filing of a complaint, when we do not know what the person in the background is suspected of or accused and that this person could not defend himself", he argued.
Julien Bayou resigned Monday from his functions at the head of Europe Ecology-The Greens, as well as those at the head of the group in the Assembly, considering himself trapped by an "untenable" situation because in particular the internal cell has refused at this stage to hear it.
The day before, Mr. Jadot had publicly asked him to “withdraw” from the national secretariat “of EELV.
"There may be, at a given moment for the serenity of the debates, a kind of withdrawal which is not a sanction, which is not a resignation, which is not an exclusion but here we see, in the media game, that it was a sanction and this sanction, it is not fair”, developed Mr. Jadot on Friday.
Beyond that, he firmly defended the existence and the work of the internal cells that the parties - mainly left - have set up.
"Political parties have a special responsibility and we need ethics," he explained, criticizing the position of Justice Minister Eric Dupont-Moretti who denounced "private law justice".
"Everyone is happy when the Council of the Order of Physicians is interested in the practices of Didier Raoult to say that he is in violation", recalled Mr. Jadot.
"It's a form of ethics: it must be stronger than justice".
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