Jean-Christophe Lagarde candidate for Drancy, after having led town for sixteen years | EUROtoday

The former mayor of Drancy Jean-Christophe Lagarde (2001-2017) is a candidate for the municipal elections within the metropolis of Seine-Saint-Denis, thus displaying his need to return to enterprise after having served a two-year sentence of ineligibility for embezzlement of public funds, he instructed Agence France-Presse, Saturday January 10, confirming his statements to Parisian.

This announcement comes as his spouse, Aude Lagarde, who took over from him in 2017 as a result of vote on the regulation on the non-cumulation of mandates, communicated a number of weeks in the past that she wouldn’t stand for re-election for well being causes.

The former boss of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) and ex-MP (2002-2022) was sentenced in 2022 to 10 months in jail and two years of ineligibility for having offered his mother-in-law with a fictitious job as a parliamentary assistant between May 2009 and August 2010. He was additionally indicted for organized gang fraud within the case of false data revealed towards the previous “rebellious” Alexis Corbière and Raquel Garrido, wrongly accused of getting employed an undocumented cleansing woman in an article revealed by the weekly The Point in 2022.

Opposed to his former substitute

Depicted by his opponents because the central determine of a “Lagarde system” primarily based on clientelism, the previous mayor sees on this components a ” hate “ in direction of him and that of his spouse, in response to his feedback reported by The Parisian. “My conviction hurt me and I felt it was deeply unfair, but I moved on. I understand that my opponents do not want to turn the page: they have nothing else to write”responds within the day by day the one who guarantees, within the occasion of election,“be a different mayor” of who he was.

In March, he ought to face his deputy within the legislative elections, municipal councilor Hamid Chabani, who broke with the municipal majority within the fall, in addition to the candidate of La France insoumise, Gokhan Unver, and the candidate of the Ecologists, Hacène Chibane.