95.1 percent of those who voted in the referendum wanted the president to be impeached
Frankfurt’s mayor Peter Feldmann, who is being sued for using his office to secure a high-paying job for his wife Zübeyde Temizel, has been dismissed in a referendum following corruption charges against him.
According to a report in Euronews, Feldmann, who is facing corruption charges in Frankfurt, Germany’s leading financial center, refused to accept the city council’s decision to impeach him and a referendum was held. In the referendum held on Sunday, 95.1 percent of those who voted wanted the mayor to be dismissed.
Last March, the Frankfurt prosecutor’s office launched an investigation against Feldmann, a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) led by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, for “providing unfair benefits and abuse of office” to his wife. It was alleged that the mayor’s wife, who was the director of a daycare center run by an organization that funded Feldmann’s election campaign in 2018, received an “excessively high salary”. In return, the politician allegedly agreed to prioritize the organization’s interests.
The 64-year-old mayor of Frankfurt, whose trial began last month, flatly denies the accusations.
