NSW Greens MP calls for support from leaders

NSW Greens MEP Jeremy Buckingham has asked the leader of the federal party not to be asked to resign despite allegations of "badual violence".

Buckingham wrote Thursday to Richard Di Natale, three days after the leader of the Greens had asked him to withdraw from the list of candidates for the upper house in the parliamentary elections in March.

He asked Mr. Di Natale to make a public statement reaffirming his support for procedural fairness in the party and the presumption of innocence, after NSW MP Jenny Leong had used parliamentary privilege to relay allegations of badual harbadment against Mr. Buckingham.

Ms. Leong on Tuesday called on her opponent's party to resign as a result of the alleged incident and accused him of intimidating him twice this year.

The scandal again revealed deep divisions within the party, with a handful of MPs on either side of the organization supporting their factional parent.

Mr. Buckingham denies the alleged 2011 incident involving a party member and referred to an independent investigation that did not recommend an adverse finding against him.

"If we abandon the principles of paramount importance that are the presumption of innocence and procedural fairness in order to calm the faction of Left Renewal that has infiltrated our party, what kind of party are the Australian Greens? " Mr. Buckingham wrote in the letter to Mr. Di Natale, seen from the AAP.

"I ask you to make a public statement reaffirming your support for the principles of the presumption of innocence and fairness of the proceedings."

Mr. Buckingham's supporters accused Ms. Leong of using the alleged 2011 badual harbadment as a political weapon.