After three attempts, Jean-Christophe Lagarde elected municipal councilor of Drancy


The third attempt will have been the right one for the former deputy and head of the UDI Jean-Christophe Lagarde who was elected on the night of Friday to Saturday municipal councilor in his stronghold of Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis) after two ballot cancellations. At the end of a nocturnal municipal council, which began Friday at 7:00 p.m. and ended after 2:00 a.m., Jean-Christophe Lagarde, 54, was elected 11th deputy mayor of the city, his wife Aude Lagarde. His compensation will amount to “3,878.99 euros gross”, one of the best paid positions among the deputies, according to documents consulted by AFP, which he can combine with his unemployment benefit as a former deputy.

Failures due to irregularities

For the elected centrist, the first two attempts to be elected had ended in failure due to irregularities. During the municipal council of July 7, the resignation of the deputy to whom Jean-Christophe Lagarde succeeds had not been registered by the services of the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis. On July 14, during a second council convened urgently before the summer break, the procedure had not been carried out in the rules either, had estimated at the beginning of September the administrative court of Montreuil.

“One would have thought that the legal remedies and the current trial invite him to be more modest, but he clings to his allowances, commented the elected official of the opposition Hacène Chibane, at the initiative of the appeals. “By going back to it for the third time, he will earn his living even better by even benefiting from the thaw of the index point, unlike many French people,” he added.

“This is a reorganization of the municipal team linked to the non-accumulation of mandates. Having lost in the legislative elections, I am reinvesting in the city”, argued AFP Jean-Christophe Lagarde, former mayor of Drancy. “I will coordinate the major city projects that I initiated as a former mayor.”

Judged on December 7

Defeated in the June legislative elections by the Insoumise Raquel Garrido (Nupes) after 20 years of reign and four successive terms, the former deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis finds himself under the blow of a conviction, suspected of having granted a fictitious job as a parliamentary assistant to his mother-in-law. Judged on October 3 for “embezzlement of public funds”, the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office requested a one-year suspended prison sentence against him, accompanied by a five-year deprivation of civil rights.

Judgment is expected on December 7. In addition, one of his former collaborators was indicted in early September, in the investigation into the false accusations of the magazine Le Point having targeted, during the campaign, the deputies LFI Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbière.



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