Kader Arif, the Minister for Former Combatants, has resigned in the face of an enquiry into whether he used his influence with the Midi Pyrenees regional council to get a contract for a firm owned by his brother. The enquiry is at a preliminary stage following allegations from members of the council's opposition. Arif is a close associate of President Hollande and Martin Malvy the regional president.
Malvy said that the charges are politically motivated and Arif denounced the "insinuations"
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