The elected official, indicted for “administration of a substance” in order to commit “rape or sexual assault” has agreed to step down from his senatorial duties.
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Senator Joël Guerriau is getting started “withdrawn from his duties”, learned franceinfo on Wednesday, September 25 from Gérard Larcher’s entourage. He will no longer sit “until further notice”. The elected representative of Loire-Atlantique “agreed to step down from his duties” in the Senate, such as Secretary of the Senate and Vice-President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and Armed Forces, the same source said.
The Senate President met with the senator on Wednesday and asked him to resign. Joël Guerriau “didn’t give him an answer”indicates Gérard Larcher’s entourage.
“I personally think he no longer has a place in the Senate.”Gérard Larcher said on France Inter on Wednesday. “It is my wish, but I have no power over it.”recalled the President of the Senate, specifying that “only the Constitutional Council, after a court decision, can remove a parliamentarian from his mandate.”