Patrick Balkany

Patrick Balkany (born 16 August 1948 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French politician. He is a former member of the National Assembly of France. He was representing the 5th constituency of the Hauts-de-Seine department, and is a member of The Republicans. He served as mayor of Levallois-Perret, a wealthy suburb of Paris, since 1983, with his wife Isabelle as his deputy. He is also a long-time friend and associate of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy. He is of Hungarian, Latvian and Ukrainian Jewish origin. In 2019, he was sentenced for tax evasion to four years in prison and to ten years of disqualification from public office, then dismissed from his mayor's mandate as a consequence of the latter sentence. Five months later he was released to house arrest for health reasons. In February 2022 though, his sentence reverted to imprisonment due to multiple violations of his house arrest.