This time it’s the right one. After two cancellations of the ballot, Jean-Christophe Lagarde (UDI) was elected municipal councilor in his stronghold of Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis). At the end of a municipal council started Friday at 7:00 p.m. and ending after 2:00 a.m., the former deputy was elected 11th deputy mayor of the city, his wife Aude Lagarde.
His compensation will amount to “3878.99 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. His first two attempts to get elected ended in failure due to irregularities.
“He clings to his allowances”
During the municipal council of July 7, the resignation of the deputy to whom Jean-Christophe Lagarde succeeded had not been registered by the services of the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis. A week later, during a second council convened urgently, 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. Asked by AFP, the head of the UDI was unreachable on Saturday.