Patrick Balkany asks the courts to raise his ineligibility for the 2026 municipal elections | EUROtoday

The time has come to say goodbye. In this month of November, the ex-socialist François Rebsamen resigned from the city corridor of Dijon, the socialist Anne Hidalgo introduced that she wouldn’t run for a 3rd time period as mayor of Paris in 2026. And he isn’t as much as the singer Sylvie Vartan, 80 years outdated, who doesn’t put an finish to “irrevocable” to his profession after sixty years on stage. “She’s older than me and I don’t sing”jokes Patrick Balkany, 76 years outdated.

Farewells? Very little for the previous mayor (Les Républicains, LR) of Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine). Patrick Balkany is bored, and he has determined to run as a candidate, as soon as once more, within the municipal elections of 2026. The well being issues, which had punctuated his authorized profession? “I’m in great shapehe declares to World. I’d rather die in my office than on my couch in front of the TV. Dying of boredom is the worst thing. » There is a catch, however: after thirty years at the head of this town in the Paris suburbs (between 1983 and 1995, then between 2001 and 2020), the mayor and his wife, Isabelle, were sentenced to three years in prison. firm and ten years of ineligibility for “tax fraud” in 2020. The sanction will probably be elevated shortly after to 4 and a half years for “laundering tax fraud”. Never thoughts! On October 25, Patrick Balkany requested the courts to “raise” his sentence of ineligibility, revealed BFM-TV.

The prison sentence has now been served and the previous mayor emphasizes that he has already served half of the ineligibility sentence. That justice can resolve {that a} citizen can’t stand for election is “nonsense”he denounces. “We must let the people decide”he provides, citing companions in misfortune. He mentions Donald Trump. “It’s the people who choose, not the media or the judges”he denounces. Jérôme Cahuzac, he provides, additionally sentenced to a sentence of ineligibility for “tax fraud” and “laundering of tax fraud”, did he not have to attend earlier than with the ability to stand once more? The former price range minister (2012-2013) was eradicated within the first spherical of the early legislative elections, on June 30.

“People are asking me to come back”

Patrick Balkany additionally remembers the case of Marine Le Pen. In the trial of the affair of the parliamentary assistants of the National Front (now the National Rally), 5 years of ineligibility (and 5 years jail sentence, together with two years, and a high-quality of 300,000 euros). Former Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin then thought-about, on the social community “shocking that Marine Le Pen is deemed ineligible and, thus, cannot stand before the vote of the French”. Because, mentioned the Renaissance du Nord deputy, “fight M^me Le Pen is done at the polls, not elsewhere”.

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