“We are still at a very small stage of unveiling”, about cases of sexual and sexist assault in politics, affirmed the feminist activist and elected Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV) Alice Coffin, at the initiative of the #metoopolitique collective, Friday, December 3, during a conference press release, a week after the dissemination of accusations of sexual assault and rape against former minister Nicolas Hulot. She recalled that” there is [avait] Red alert “ in “A political world plagued by this question”.
“The most appalling reaction is that of the President of the Republic”, she said, while Emmanuel Macron had wished neither Wednesday nor “Complacency” or “Inquisition”, about the accusations against his former minister of ecological transition. “It is so eloquent on the extent of the French denial”, she judged. Mathilde Viot, general secretary of the group La France insoumise (LFI) at the regional council of Ile-de-France, denounced the “Fuck up this government”.
Testimonials received “every day”
“The launch of our collective and the dissemination of the survey on Nicolas Hulot” must “Promote reactions”, since there is now a “Receptacle to testify”, pleaded Mme Coffin, ensuring that the #metoopolitique collective received ” everyday “ testimonials from “Women who have already spoken or who have not yet spoken”.
Three elected women out of four have already been confronted with sexist remarks or behavior, according to a survey published on Friday by the local Elected Representatives network, carried out among 1,000 political representatives.
After publication in mid-November in The world a platform signed by 285 women working in politics and academia, including MPs Karima Delli (EELV) and Danièle Obono (LFI) and the vice-president of the Senate (PS), Laurence Rossignol, calling for “to remove the authors of sexual and gender-based violence ”parties, several left-wing parties – Socialist Party, Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV), La France insoumise (LFI), Génération Ecologie (GE) and Génération.s – have committed to “Do not invest any person implicated for acts of gender-based and sexual violence” in the next elections.