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Jean-Christophe Lagarde (born the October 24th 1967 with Châtellerault in the department of the Vienna), is a Politician French, After having left Francois Bayrou which it had ardently supported during the electoral campaign, it becomes appointed member of the parliamentary group of the Nouveau center (June 19th, 2007) and mayor of Drancy. It was indicated 5th vice-president of the Nouveau center within its provisional organization.

Biography

Its family settles with Drancy in 1970. His/her father is data processing specialist and his mother secretary.

Political career

In 1974, it receives a slap of an instructress of the outdoor center of Drancy to the reason which it had dared to tear off a poster of the candidate François Mitterrand. Member of the Union for the French democracy, it militates as of 1988 in the countryside of Raymond Barre, and in 1989, adhering Center of the social democrats, it is elected City council man of Drancy on the list of union RPR/UDF.

In 1990, he becomes president of the Young social democrats of the Seine-Saint-Denis for which he will invest himself thoroughly, until forsaking its studies of history. It meets Francois Bayrou at the time of a congress in the Pyrenees in 1991.

Candidate of union UDF/RPR to the legislative elections of 1993 and 1997, it is beaten by the outgoing deputy Jean-Claude Gayssot.

Chief candidate of the union of the opposition to the municipal elections with Drancy in 1995, it has put for the first time of the local history in ballotage the outgoing mayor Maurice Nilès, figure of the French Communist party and mayor of the city for thirty-six years.

He is elected National president of the UDF young people in 1996 and the remainder until in 2002.

In 1998, it is elected regional adviser Île-de-France.

At the time of the municipal elections of the March 11th 2001, Jean-Christophe Lagarde gains as of the first turn the municipal elections of the town of Drancy with 50,84% of the voices, one of the cities of the old communist red suburbs.

He is elected one year later at the time of the legislative elections appointed of Drancy-Bobigny the June 16th 2002, for XIIe legislature (2002 - 2007), in the fifth district of the Seine-Saint-Denis, by 22 vote of majority, thus charming a district anchored to left since of the decades.

He belongs to the parliamentary group Union for the French democracy.

He challenges the Minister of Interior Department Dominique de Villepin, in October 2004, about a disc of rap distributed by the municipality of Bobigny which he considers offensive for the police force. Following his initiative, the prefect carried felt sorry for and two municipal employees and a rappor are condemned lawsuit in April 2007 to the court of Bobigny for this business. In same time, it attacks an municipal employee trade unionist for slandering by a leaflet denouncing the Employment Policy in the Town of Drancy. The two legal decisions are in call but the trade unionist is condemned in first authority.

For the referendum on the TCE of May 2005, Jean Christophe Lagarde is one of the rare UDF deputies, (with Jean Lassalle), who preaches “not” with the Traité establishing a Constitution for Europe because of the entered of Turkey. Its district will give a clear majority (73%) to “not”. With the autumn 2005, at the time of the riots of the suburbs, he does not hesitate to go up in first line with the mayor of Évry, Manuel Valls, which gives him a reputation of “Sarkozy of UDF in the 9-3” by Eric Raoult, and Roger Karoutchi, owner of UMP d' Île-de-France said of him It is sectarian which is badly turning .

Since December 1st, 2006, he became the youngest vice-president of the National Assembly.

For the presidential campaign 2007, he became the spokesperson of Francois Bayrou, of which he says: Bayrou wants to make Peter the system. It rightly. There has enough of this republican monarchy. Of these candidates who promise all and nothing holds. I am free. I owe anything with nobody. I say what I think.

It belongs to the many politicians who gave up Francois Bayrou. After the 1st turn of the presidential election of 2007, it takes its distances with him. At the time of the legislative elections of 2007, Jean-Christophe Lagarde represents himself without label (its documents of countryside will mention two commune of its district Bobigny and Drancy as a political tendency) for a second mandate while being invested by UDF/Mouvement Démocrate. He is re-elected with the second turn on June 17th with 59,87% of the voices. Two days after its election, he announces his rallying with the Nouveau center of Herve Morin, political party and group made up of former UDF members of Parliament rejoined in Nicolas Sarkozy.

Mandates

Current mandates:

  • Mayor of Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis) since the March 11th 2001
  • Vice-president of the community of communes Le Bourget - Drancy since December 21st 2006
  • Appointed Seine-Saint-Denis since June 16th 2002, re-elected on June 17th 2007
  • Member of the New center since June 19th, 2007 and vice-president of the New center
  • Secretary of the Commission of the Laws of the National Assembly

Old mandates:

Private life

He is married with Aude Lavail, old militant of the UDF of Languedoc and currently associated with the mayor of Drancy and regional adviser of Ile-de-France.

He has two children.

References

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