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Medway Lib Dems get new leader

By Alan W Collins on Monday 20th April 2009 10:39 / 2 comments

Cllr Geoff Juby Cllr Maureen Ruparel
Change of Leader: Cllrs Geoff Juby and Maureen Ruparel

The Medway Council Liberal Democrat group has been shaken-up after Cllr Geoff Juby resigned as leader.

Cllr Juby, who is also Parliamentary Candidate for Rochester & Strood, wishes to give more time to his family and his Parliamentary campaign.

He has been succeeded as leader, it was announced, by Cllr Maureen Ruparel, a familiar face in local politics having previously been group leader.

John Ward says:

Monday 20th April 2009 at 22:52

Yes, this is ? as he said at Full Council last week ? to allow him to concentrate on the preparing for the next general Election, where once again he is to stand as the LibDem candidate for the new version of the current Medway constituency, to be called “Rochester and Strood” and with some boundary changes.

Credit where it’s due: Geoff Juby has put in a lot of work over the years, and far more than anyone else in his party group. We would often walk back part of the way together from meetings at the Civic Centre, and he would tell me what he had been doing. It was a lot! He is very committed.

Maureen was really quite a good leader of the then fifteen-strong LibDem group on the council from 2000 to 2003, which was my first term as an elected member, so I came to know of both of them quite well. For me it’ll be a case of deja vu from now on(!)
Peter Loftus says:

Sunday 16th August 2009 at 11:05

Is there now a Rochester and Stood Liberal Association? And does this mean that Medway will have 2 M.Ps, the other presumably representing Chatham and Aylesford?