A vote of no confidence in South Lanarkshire council’s leader has been defeated.
meeting on Wednesday , the SNP group moved a vote of no confidence in councillor Joe Fagan after he was suspended in June. Councillor Fagan was suspended from his duties for a period of two months from July 7 due to being found in breach of the Standards Commission’s Councillors’ Code of Conduct.
SNP group leader Councillor John Ross proposed the motion, which was seconded by councillor Maureen Chalmers . He said: “ I did what I believed to be right and that’s why I got into local government in the first place.“I believe the Standards framework in Scotland should go after real wrongdoing in local government, it should not tie the hands of those working to expose it.”
She said: “The public expects a high standard of behaviour from the people they elect and all councillors sign up to the Code of Conduct which sets out these high standards.
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