Canterbury-Bankstown Mayor Khal Asfour has stepped down as a New South Wales Labor candidate after reports emerged about his lavish spending during a council trip in Tokyo.
The Daily Telegraph on Friday reported Asfour charged ratepayers $120 for a health spa treatment, claimed hundreds of dollars for alcohol and thousands of dollars for luxury clothing spent in Tokyo in 2015.
Asfour, who is set to be endorsed by Labor’s state conference in October to contest for the upper house at the state election in March 2023, pulled out of the race on Friday.
A spokesman for Asfour said, “the latest headlines are the last straw.”…