Julien Bayou (born 11 June 1980) is a French activist, lawyer and politician who has represented the 5th constituency of

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in the

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since

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. A member of the

Europe Ecology – The Greens Europe Ecology – The Greens (french: Europe Écologie Les Verts , EELV ) is a centre-left to left-wing green political party in France. The party is a member of the European Green Party. The party was formed on 13 November 2010 from the merge ...

(EELV) party, he served as its national secretary from 2019 until his resignation in 2022. In September 2022, he withdrew from the co-presidency of the environmental group in the National Assembly and resigned from the post of national secretary of Europe Ecology – The Greens after accusations of psychological violence by an ex-companion, relayed by his opponent inside the party

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Family and education

Julien Bayou was born into a leftist family. His father was an architect before becoming a healer in

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, and his mother, a teacher of economic and social sciences, "a real Maoist", who helped the FLN. His grandmother Marguerite is the former mayor of

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and his grandfather is Raoul Bayou, a former socialist deputy mayor of

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. Bayou studied at Lycée Turgot in Paris, before entering the Institute of Political Studies in Strasbourg and then the Institute of Political Studies in Paris. He obtained a degree in international economics, carried out in part during an internship in the writing of '' Alternatives Economiques'', drawing up an inventory of internships in companies in France. In 2011, he obtained a law degree by taking correspondence courses.

Professional career

After his studies, he worked at the Ministry of National Education and as a consultant for

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. From 2005 to 2008, he was project manager for Africa within Coordination SUD (the French coordination of international solidarity NGOs). In 2008, he left the NGO to set up a "communication and mobilization consultancy" cooperative with his friend and partner Lionel Primault. In 2013, he was in charge of campaigns for

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, an NGO which mobilizes on various international issues, such as climate change, human rights, corruption and poverty. It is in this context that he takes part in the campaign to liberate the young Sevil Sevimli, a Franco-Turkish student imprisoned in Turkey for having participated in a concert. In 2022, he leads the Green coalition into the Nouvelle Union Populaire Ecologique et Sociale ("NUPES") in the French parliementary elections. He wins his seat representing the 5th constituency of Paris and is then elected as co-president of the green parlimentary group in the

Books

* ''Le Petit Livre noir du logement'', collectif, éditions La Découverte, 2009 * ''Dix bonnes raisons d'aimer (ou pas) l'éducation populaire'', I love educ pop, under the direction of Damien Cerqueus and Mikaël Garnier-Lavalley, Editions de l'Atelier, 2010 * ''Kerviel, une affaire d'État : 2 milliards pour la Société en général'', préface ny Eva Joly, Arcane 17, 2016 * ''Désobéissons pour sauver l'Europe'', Editions Rue de l'échiquier, 2018

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bayou, Julien 1980 births Living people French activists Europe Ecology – The Greens politicians 21st-century French politicians Politicians from Paris Sciences Po alumni Members of Parliament for Paris Deputies of the 16th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Members of the Regional Council of Île-de-France