“This morning I presented my resignation from my mandates as municipal councilor and metropolitan councilor” to the prefect of the Loire, “and I informed the mayor”, writes Samy Kefi-Jerome in a press release sent to AFP on Friday.
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He is one of the deputies of Gaël Perdriau, LR mayor of Saint-Etienne (Loire) implicated in the case of political blackmail on intimate video. Samy Kéfi-Jérôme announced to AFP, Friday, September 23, to have resigned from his mandates in the city and in the metropolis. “I submitted my resignation from my mandates as municipal councilor and metropolitan councilor this morning” to the prefect of the Loire, “and I informed the mayor”wrote the municipal deputy for education in a press release sent to AFP.
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“I deplore the personal attacks to which I am subject and note that the conditions for the exercise of my functions are no longer met”, emphasizes in his press release Samy Kéfi-Jérôme. He also wrote that he lived “like a deep injustice” the charges against him.
The elected 42-year-old had sat on the municipal council of Saint-Etienne since 2014, the date of election of Gaël Perdriau at the head of the city. However, he did not resign from his functions on the regional council but had been suspended, at the end of August, from his functions as digital strategy delegate by the president of the region Laurent Wauquiez (LR).
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