"If it happens again, I will do it again," said the Green MP on BFMTV, who in September relayed the accusations on a television set.

She refused to say that Julien Bayou is innocent, after the Europe Ecologie-Les Verts cell dedicated to sexist and sexual violence decided a week ago to "close the file", for lack of having been able to "lead to his investigation well.

"I will not comment on that since there has been no investigation," she replied.

"Without investigation, nothing can be said."

Ms. Rousseau regretted that "the women who expressed themselves in the press did not feel the conditions were met (…) to be able to express themselves within the party. It is a subject", she declared.

"I will continue to support women's voices and if it happens again, I will do it again," she continued.

Tuesday morning, the environmental group, however, recorded the end of the withdrawal of Julien Bayou, who was no longer to speak in the media on behalf of the group or ensure general discussions in the hemicycle.

With this decision, the deputy can resume his normal activities as a deputy, but the question of a resumption of his position as group co-president, which he assured with the deputy Cyrielle Chatelain, "does not arise for the moment" , says one in his entourage.

Cyrielle Chatelain therefore remains the sole president of the group.

Last September, Julien Bayou had to withdraw from his posts as national secretary of EELV and co-president of the environmental group for the time of an instruction within the party.

The affair had caused an explosion internally a few weeks before the congress, since the accusations of the ex-companion had been revealed live on television by Sandrine Rousseau, a controversial figure carrying an opposing strategic line within the party.

EELV/NUPES MP Sandrine Rousseau at the National Assembly in Paris, February 6, 2023 © Ludovic MARIN / AFP

Supported by certain executives, Julien Bayou had counterattacked by accusing the finalist of the environmental primary for the presidential election of having "gone too far", calling not to "confuse feminism and McCarthyism".

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