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Joseph 'Joe' Anderson OBE (born 24 January 1958) is a British Labour Party politician who is the first directly elected mayor of Liverpool, having been elected with 57% of the vote on 3 May 2012. He previously served as leader of Liverpool City Council from the 2010 Council election until the 2012 Mayoral election.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Labour sweeps to power in Liverpool after 12 years of Lib Dem rule )〕 He is the first Labour Leader of the Council since 1998, the same year he was first elected as a Councillor. He is also on the board of directors at Liverpool Vision, an Economic Development Company within the city.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Liverpool Vision - Board )〕 Anderson represents Liverpool City Council as a member of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority. ==Political career== Anderson was first elected as a city councillor in 1988, representing the Abercromby ward. In 2003, he became the Leader of the Labour Group on Liverpool City Council, and in 2010 became the Leader of the Council, when Labour gained a majority of seats in the city. Previously he been on the board of the Liverpool Culture Company, a group involved in developing a programme of events for Liverpool's year long position as European Capital of Culture in 2008. However, he resigned this position in 2007 after stating his concern at the lack of community involvement in planned events, alleging that an elitist attitude was developing among the board.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title='Wine and Canápes' )〕 Anderson was, along with Liverpool Riverside MP Louise Ellman, involved with the campaign to free Michael Shields after his arrest and subsequent imprisonment in Bulgaria in 2005.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Graham Sankey held over attack on Joe Anderson )〕 In opposition, Anderson had been critical of the joint venture between BT and Liverpool City Council called LDL. However, one of his first moves on becoming Council Leader was to appoint David McElhinney as temporary Chief Executive of the Council for the 6-month period when the Council was renegotiating its contract with BT. David McElhinney was Chief Executive of LDL at the same time. Cherie Booth QC was engaged to provide legal advice regarding the obvious potential for conflict of interest. The LDL contract was extended, although this was subsequently terminated when it came to light that David McElhinney's payments from another council - Lancashire - were under investigation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joe Anderson (politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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