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| Lutfur Rahman
Lutfur
Rahman allegedly used illegal tactics to win May mayoral election
Islamic
voters were 'told they should be good Muslims and support him'
Supporters
accused of branding his main rival racist and anti-Islamic
Four
voters have submitted damaging dossier of evidence to High Court
Britain’s
first elected Muslim mayor is to face trial over claims he committed widespread
voting fraud.
Lutfur Rahman, 48, is accused of using illegal tactics to
win the mayoral election in Tower Hamlets, East London, in May.
People were allegedly promised council houses if they backed
him and Islamic voters were told they should be ‘good Muslims’ and support him.
His supporters are accused of doctoring ballot papers,
manipulating postal voting and sabotaging the chances of his main rival, Labour
candidate John Briggs, by branding him racist and anti-Islamic.
Four voters have submitted a damaging dossier of evidence to
the High Court in an attempt to overturn Mr Rahman’s election victory.
Yesterday Mr Justice Supperstone and Mr Justice Spence
granted them the right to have their allegations heard at a full trial, which
is expected to be heard in Tower Hamlets later this year.
Mr Rahman was a member of the Tower Hamlets Labour Party and
was its candidate to be the first directly elected mayor of the borough in
2010.
But he was expelled from the Labour party after allegations
surfaced about his close links with an Islamic extremist group called the
Islamic Forum of Europe.
Mr Rahman then won the 2010 mayoral contest as an
independent candidate.
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