The two attempts of the president of the UDI to be elected 11ᵉ assistant to the mayor of the city, his wife, Aude Lagarde, have for the time being sold by failures, due to irregularities.
Le Monde with AFP
The Administrative Court of Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis) canceled, Thursday, September 8, the election of ex-deputy and boss of UDI Jean-Christophe Lagarde as assistant to the municipal council of Drancy, where He is looking to sit since his defeat in the legislative elections. Following a hearing on Wednesday, the Montreuil administrative court estimated that the conditions under which the elections were not in accordance with.
During the municipal council of July 7, the resignation of the assistant to whom Mr. Lagarde wants to succeed was not registered by the services of the Seine-Saint-Denis prefecture. On July 14, during a second advice convened in emergency before the summer break, the procedure was also carried out in the rules.
In question, the “impossibility for the municipal council to organize a second vote after the proclamation of the results of the election of July 7,” said the court. Clearly, Mr. Lagarde should first have resigned, then a new election standing, according to the explanations of the elected Drancée Hacène Chibane, fierce opposing to Mr. Lagarde, on the initiative of the appeal.
“I am satisfied with this decision which underlines the expeditious nature of the maneuver and the side a little dictatorial I do what I want, as I want. There are rules,” he reacted.
placed in police custody Wednesday
He affirms that the return of the former deputy to the helm in Drancy (72,000 inhabitants), a city he directed from 2001 to 2017 and on which he always watched, has the sole purpose of “offering him a real golden parachute “.
Contacted by the France-Presse agency, Mr. Lagarde was unreachable Thursday evening.
Almost two months after his defeat in the legislative elections in his fief of the fifth district of the department, faced with the “rebellious” Raquel Garrido, Jean-Christophe also finds himself in the middle of a legal storm. One of his former collaborators was indicted Thursday in the investigation into the false accusations of the point having targeted, during the campaign, the deputies Lfi Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbière.
Placed in police custody on Wednesday, Mr. Lagarde came out free, without pursuit at this stage. In addition, the president of the UDI will have to appear on October 3 before the Paris Criminal Court with his mother-in-law; He is suspected of having given him a fictitious job as a parliamentary assistant.