Gaël Perdriau was unanimously excluded during a political office of LR, we learned from the same source, confirming information from Progress.
This decision is unsurprising, the party having launched the procedure for the exclusion of the 50-year-old mayor on September 13 after a series of revelations from Mediapart about a sextape blackmail.
The city of 175,000 inhabitants has been agitated since the end of August by this affair, at the heart of a judicial investigation after a complaint for blackmail by the former centrist first deputy, Gilles Artigues.
The scandal prompted Gaël Perdriau to dismiss his chief of staff and then to renounce his representative functions in the city and the Metropolis, while one of his deputies, namely accused of having shot a compromising video to politically neutralize Mr. Artigues , tendered his resignation.
The three men were placed in police custody in mid-September after the confessions of a former close friend of the town hall on the Mediapart site, accusing the mayor and his entourage of having fomented this "barbouzage de manners" by paying him via benefits. fictitious billed to two cultural associations subsidized by the town hall.
Former vice-president of the Republicans, Gaël Perdriau had already been dismissed from his responsibilities in December 2021 by Christian Jacob, after his comments critical of Valérie Pécresse and Eric Ciotti.
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