Mayor of Valenciennes
On June 28,2012,he was elected mayor of Valenciennes by the municipal council,following the resignation of Dominique Riquet. [1]
In the 2014 municipal elections,Laurent Degallaix was re-elected in the second round with 50.32% of votes cast,and a turnout of 53.40%. [2] Vice-president of the Valenciennes Métropole agglomeration community in charge of finance since 2008,he was elected president in 2016. [3]
On November 8,2018,he was taken into police custody in connection with the sale of the municipal office Val' Hainaut Habitat. [4] In 2019,he accepts the Lille public prosecutor's proposal to proceed with a plea bargaining procedure (CRPC) in the V2H case. He is fined 25,000 euros. [5]
In June 2019,La République en marche announced its support for Laurent Degallaix for the 2020 municipal elections in Valenciennes. [6] [7] [8] He specifies that he does not join the party,intending to keep his "autonomy". [9] He is also the first mayor in the Nord department to be backed by LREM for these elections. [10] The list he led won in the first round with 51% of the vote. [11] He was re-elected mayor when the municipal council was installed on May 26,2020. [12]
Member of Parliament
Following the resignation of Jean-Louis Borloo,he was elected deputy in the 21st constituency of Nord in the legislative by-election held on June 22 and 29,2014. After receiving 47% of the vote in the first round,he was elected with 72.14% of the vote in the second round and resigned from the regional council. [13]
On September 6,2014,he announced his support for HervéMorin in the election for UDI president. [14]
In December 2014,he mobilized alongside teachers at the Jean-Moulin secondary school in Wallers to safeguard the resources the school had thanks to the priority education scheme. [15]
A supporter of Alain Juppé in the 2016 open Right and Center primary,he rallied to Emmanuel Macron's candidacy for the 2017 presidential election, [16] but did not provide his sponsorship. [17] Affected by the law on the accumulation of mandates,he does not seek re-election in the following legislative elections but becomes the deputy substitute for Béatrice Descamps. [18]
Laurent Degallaix ran in the 2021 departmental elections in the canton of Valenciennes as a pair with senator Valérie Létard,against outgoing The Republicans (LR) councillors Yves Dusart and Geneviève Mannarino,whom he described as "interims ". [19] The pair came out on top in the first round with almost 37% of the vote, [20] then won the second round with 52.2%. [21]
The same year,after the de facto demise of the MR,he joined the Horizons movement created by former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe. He became its referent for the Hauts-de-France region. [22]
