Widely re-elected mayor of Drancy (UDI) in the first round of municipal elections last year with 65% of the vote, Aude Lagarde will defend her seat as departmental councilor at the end of June in tandem with her sports assistant, Hamid Chabani. With the hope of finally integrating the majority if Seine-Saint-Denis tipped to the right.
“We have a real chance to win for the first time since 1967 and it would be the perfect moment, with the Olympic Games coming up and the Grand Paris Express construction sites, she observes. The billions that will be invested must benefit the employment of the inhabitants of Seine-Saint-Denis, to get them out of poverty and aid. “
Aude Lagarde believes that the department must “move from support to social investment, in education, professional integration or for decent housing”. All to “stop keeping the inhabitants in a poverty trap,” she continues. Pugnaceous, she judges that the department “has failed on its social skills when that is its raison d’être. It is the municipalities that do the job for him. “
The RN castigates “the betrayal of the UDI”
In 2015, she had won with 74.97% of the vote but the low participation in the first round had pushed the UDI to a second round against the far right. A scenario in which Enzo Marano still believes, who will be a candidate for the National Rally (RN) with Katarina Katanic, a pair who will be one of the youngest in France (20 and 24 years old).
The first was born when Jean-Christophe Lagarde (UDI), Aude Lagarde’s husband, became mayor of Drancy for the first time. He takes a sharp look at his balance sheet. “Before taking power, he announced that Drancy would become a little Raincy, and we are far from the account, laughs the student in town planning. We are rather on a new Saint-Denis… It is a betrayal of the UDI, which promised a policy of the right vis-à-vis the Communists and which made a policy of the left. “
Enzo Marano says he is “confident”, assuring to feel on the ground “a fed up with the Lagarde: the city begins to fall into ruins, we see shops disappear, the inhabitants feel the insecurity and incivility”, evoking themes that are not the competence of the departmental council.
The left dreams of a “turning point”
For its part, the left will try to create a surprise by presenting a duo made up of Lotfi Ben Yedder (PS) and Carine Nilès (PCF), a name well known in the city: she is the granddaughter of the former deputy – Emblematic Communist Mayor Maurice Nilès, elected from 1959 to 1997 and died in 2021.
Last year, this territorial official obtained 22.25% in the first round of municipal elections. “I want a turning point in my city,” proclaims the one who recently became involved in politics. It has been twenty years that the right is present, that there are more and more multiple mandates. “A pike directed at Jean-Christophe Lagarde, both” former mayor, deputy, metropolitan councilor, still candidate for departmental (Editor’s note: as a substitute)… ” “People are fed up. He did some things in the beginning, but nothing now. He has his personal ambitions, so much the better, but we have to say stop and we won’t let go. “
LREM arises as an “alternative”
Facing the Lagarde, La République en Marche (LREM) has made the canton of Drancy one of the few sectors where it has also invested a duo: Elisa Carcillo, ex-deputy (LR) in charge of holiday centers, and Clément Thepot.
“I do not want to admit to seeing the RN in the second round,” slips the first, who believes “in an alternative. “” Aude Lagarde loses her votes over time, and especially Drancy is a little abandoned and deserves better, she believes. The best example is the closure of the Bourget bridge (Editor’s note: after a rupture of a drinking water pipe on February 13) which has a very strong impact for the inhabitants. Our departmental counselor must assume her responsibilities. However, there is no shuttle, no bus… She is mayor, her husband is deputy, president of the UDI, potential presidential. However, I let myself be told that she considered that it was all Stéphane Troussel’s fault, ”the PS president of the departmental council.
False, answers the mayor of Drancy, who speaks of a “heavy technical incident, which required securing a whole road”. “There was a delay in the appraisals that were carried out, but it is very important consolidation work and we are all victims of it. “
IDENTITY RECORD
Population of the canton (Drancy minus one district of the city, attached to the canton of Blanc-Mesnil): 64,222 inhabitants.
Outgoing advisors: Aude Lagarde et Hamid Chabani (UDI)
Results of the second round of departmental 2015: Aude Lagarde and Stéphane Salini (UDI): 74.97% Jean-François Périer and Line Valles (FN): 25.03%.
Candidates in 2021: Carine Niles and Lotfi Ben Yedder (PCF-PS); Katarina Katanic and Enzo Marano (RN); Clément Thepot and Elisa Carcillo (LREM); Aude Lagarde and Hamid Chabani (UDI).
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