Fifteen elected officials left a metropolitan meeting on Thursday, September 15, in protest after the revelations about blackmail on the intimate video of the president of the metropolis of Saint-Étienne Gaël Perdriau.
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Elected officials from the metropolis of Saint-Étienne are asking for the withdrawal of their president Gaël Perdriau, also mayor of Saint-Étienne, indicates France Bleu Saint-Étienne Loire. In the middle of the session on Thursday evening, some of them left the first metropolitan meeting that had been held since the Mediapart revelations about intimate video blackmail. Faced with the scandal, the elected LR displays his “determination” to remain in place at the town hall and in the metropolis.
They are about fifteen elected officials from all sides to have left the room in the name of the common interest and the continuity of services, in the face of the will of the mayor of Saint-Étienne to continue to sit at the head of the Metropolis. Gaël Perdriau had started the session by evoking the case in which he is implicated and by asking elected officials to speak on the subject.
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“They do not want to be assimilated to ‘all rotten’ and we express their disapproval”explained this Friday, September 16, the first vice-president LR of the metropolis Hervé Reynaud, for whom Gaël Perdriau is “always legitimate in his position” of president of the community.
The group of elected officials who left the room on Thursday also requested the departure of the current chief of staff of Gaël Perdriau at the town hall and in the metropolis, Pierre Gauttieri, also implicated in the case. However, they have not yet adopted a common position vis-à-vis the president of the metropolis and do not know to date whether they will appear at the next metropolitan council scheduled for September 29.