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The Quebec’s corruption inquiry is anticipated to hear from Montreal’s notorious ex-mayor, Gerald Tremblay, right after his former right-hand man informed the Charbonneau Commission that he never really wanted to be a politician on his last day on the stand. Frank Zampino mentioned on Thursday that he was called by a “political sounding board” and motivated by his own associates in 2007 to consider a run for mayor, though he wasn’t interested himself.
According to Zampino, that group of associates included a Union Montreal party fundraiser, Bernard Trepanier, and engineering executive, Rosaire Sauriol, who pushed for Zampino to consider a run. When inquired by commission head, France Charbonneau, if it was ethical for him to discuss the city’s future with an engineering boss and not the mayor, Zampino replied that he’d always been loyal to Tremblay. He stated that “I told them there was a very good chance I would not be around in 2009 (for that year’s election) regardless of what Mayor Tremblay was going to do.” Zampino alleged that “there were people who were troubled by that.”
On his last and fifth day on the stand at the inquiry, Zampino persistently reiterated that he was not aware of any collusion in the contracts at the City of Montreal. Upon inquiry of why did the longtime politician left city hall in 2008, Zampino replied that it was a family decision as he wanted to try his hand at the private sector after 22 years in politics.
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