Thunderclap in Levallois. Patrick Balkany, who presided over the destiny of this town in Hauts-de-Seine from 1983 to 1995 and from 2001 to 2020, intends to return to business in his stronghold. This is the meaning of the approach he took at the end of October, as revealed by BFMTV, by going to court to have the ineligibility sentence to which he was sentenced, in 2019, for tax evasion reviewed.
Contacted this Thursday by Le Parisien, Patrick Balkany confirms: “I have finished serving my criminal sentence and I therefore only have this ten-year ineligibility sentence of which I have already served half. When I walk in Levallois, I am asked every ten meters to come back. As I think that retirement is the antechamber of death, I much prefer to die in my mayor's office from which I was forcibly removed. For me, ineligibility penalties should not exist, neither for me nor for Marine Le Pen. It's up to the people to decide. And I therefore wish to leave it to the voters of Levallois, it is up to them to decide. No election is a foregone conclusion and if I lose, it's not a tragedy. But the city is deteriorating and I want to put things back where they belong. »
At the town hall of Levallois, led since 2020 by its former chief of staff Agnès Pottier-Dumas, we are ready to fight, if ever justice accedes to the request of the former deputy for Hauts-de-Seine. “Basically, I doubt that a judge would grant him this reduced sentence. And I regret it. Because I would very much like Patrick Balkany to be able to run in the next municipal elections to beat him and finally close this painful chapter,” says Agnès Pottier-Dumas.
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