Mayor of Tower Hamlets Lutfur Rahman guilty of electoral corruption | Daily Mail Online
and specially for Mr 'let me complete that vote for you and Allah knows the way you vote'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkwgMMNXjTc
A London mayor who 'cynically perverted' the religious feeling of his Muslim community and 'silenced his critics with accusations of racism and Islamophobia' has been removed from office after a bitter legal battle with voters.
Disgraced Lutfur Rahman repeatedly played the 'race card' in his bid to seize the mayoralty of Tower Hamlets and later cling to power, Election Commissioner Richard Mawrey found today.
The judge ordered that last year's mayoral election be run again and Rahman - who was re-elected to the position after forming his own party, Tower Hamlets First - be barred from standing again.
Rahman, who was not in court for the judgement, was ordered to pay £250,000 costs following an Election Court trial estimated to have run up legal bills in the region of £1 million.
The judge said the case 'starkly demonstrated what happens when those in authority are afraid to confront wrongdoing for fear of allegations of racism and Islamophobia'.
Disgraced Lutfur Rahman repeatedly played the 'race card' in his bid to seize the mayoralty of Tower Hamlets and later cling to power, Election Commissioner Richard Mawrey found today.
The judge ordered that last year's mayoral election be run again and Rahman - who was re-elected to the position after forming his own party, Tower Hamlets First - be barred from standing again.
Rahman, who was not in court for the judgement, was ordered to pay £250,000 costs following an Election Court trial estimated to have run up legal bills in the region of £1 million.
The judge said the case 'starkly demonstrated what happens when those in authority are afraid to confront wrongdoing for fear of allegations of racism and Islamophobia'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkwgMMNXjTc
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