More than 500 feminist activists, for some from political parties, denounced, in a column published Tuesday, September 20 in Release, “a system of protection of aggressors in politics”and called to “a feminist succession”after MP Adrien Quattenens admitted domestic violence.
“Let things be clear: the aggressors and perpetrators of violence cannot represent our political struggles”write these feminists, including PS spokesperson Gabrielle Siry-Houari, historian Mathilde Larrère and journalist Elsa Wolinsky, who are calling for the resignation of the deputy from the North.
“If Adrien Quatennens is not at this stage the subject of a judicial conviction, although criminal proceedings have been initiated, his confession makes him politically responsible”, believe the signatories, who demand “that he resign from his parliamentary mandate, and that the ‘sexist and sexual violence’ unit of LFI seriously consider all the degrees of sanctions available”.
“When a political group has a feminist program, particularly in terms of women’s rights and the fight against gender violence, we are entitled to expect it to stop protecting the aggressors and to unconditionally supports the victims of patriarchal violence”they write, condemning “with the greatest firmness the reaction of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his peers”who were slow to denounce the seriousness of the facts.
“It’s a system that endures thanks to complicity, identified behavior, conniving cowardice”.
The signatories of the tribunein “Liberation”
“We refuse to campaign with male perpetrators of violence, or their accomplice friends”continue the signatories of the text, including activists from LFI, the PS, EELV, or Generations, believing that it ist “high time to make political space for feminists who fight daily against sexist and sexual violence”.