{{short description|Canadian politician|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Alexandre Duplessis | image = | caption = | order = 6th Mayor of Laval | term_start = November 23, 2012 | term_end = June 28, 2013 | predecessor = Gilles Vaillancourt<br>Basile Angelopoulos (acting)<ref name=interim>[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/laval-searches-for-interim-mayor-1.1202073 "Laval searches for interim mayor"]. CBC News, November 13, 2012.</ref> | successor = Martine Beaugrand | birth_date = 1970<ref name="Laval_official_biography">{{cite web|url=http://www.ville.laval.qc.ca/wlav3/index.php?pid=3079 |title=Mr. Alexandre Duplessis Biography |publisher=Ville de Laval |accessdate=June 28, 2013}}</ref> | birth_place = Laval | death_date = | death_place = | constituency = | party = Parti PRO des Lavallois → independent | alma_mater = | spouse = | relations = | children = | profession = accountant<ref name="Laval_official_biography" /> | signature = | footnotes = }} '''Alexandre Duplessis''' ({{IPA|fr|alɛksɑ̃dʁ dyplɛsi}}; born 1970) is a Canadian politician. He served as the mayor of Laval, Quebec, from November 23, 2012, until June 28, 2013. He was selected as the new mayor of Laval, Quebec following the resignation of Gilles Vaillancourt,<ref name=gazette>[https://montrealgazette.com/news/Alexandre+Duplessis+elected+interim+mayor+Laval/7600730/story.html "Alexandre Duplessis elected new interim mayor of Laval"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180801094205/http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Alexandre+Duplessis+elected+interim+mayor+Laval/7600730/story.html |date=2018-08-01 }}. ''The Gazette'', November 23, 2012.</ref> winning a 15–3 vote of Laval City Council over fellow councillor Jacques St-Jean.<ref name=gazette /> Duplessis resigned after just seven months in office following allegations of soliciting prostitutes.<ref name=gazette2>[https://montrealgazette.com/news/montreal/Laval+mayor+Alexandre+Duplessis+resigns/8593806/story.html "Laval mayor Alexandre Duplessis resigns"]. ''The Gazette'', June 28, 2013.</ref>
Duplessis is an accountant by profession as well as a former bus company executive.<ref name="Laval_official_biography" />
Previously a city councillor for the Saint-Martin ward,<ref name=gazette /> he was a member of the Parti PRO des Lavallois until that party's dissolution on November 19, 2012.<ref name=rip>"RIP: PRO des Lavallois". ''The Gazette'', November 19, 2012.</ref>
In May 2013, testimony at the Charbonneau Commission hearings also implicated Duplessis, along with virtually the entire sitting council, in the same corruption scandal that brought down Vaillancourt.<ref>[https://montrealgazette.com/news/Quebec+wants+Laval+mayor+explain+Charbonneau+Commission/8461856/story.html "Quebec wants Laval mayor to explain Charbonneau Commission revelations"]. ''The Gazette'', May 31, 2013.</ref> Duplessis has asserted his innocence of the allegations, but requested that Sylvain Gaudreault, the provincial Minister of Municipal Affairs, place the city in trusteeship until the next municipal election.<ref>[http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2013/05/31/duplessis "Le maire par intérim Alexandre Duplessis demande la mise en tutelle de Laval"]. ''Le Journal de Montréal'', May 31, 2013.</ref>
On June 3, 2013, the provincial government placed the city under trusteeship.<ref name=trustee>[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec-premier-calls-laval-trusteeship-terrible-disheartening-sad/article12313511/ "Quebec premier calls Laval trusteeship ‘terrible, disheartening, sad’"]. ''The Globe and Mail'', June 3, 2013.</ref> Florent Gagné, a former head of the Sûreté du Québec, served as the city's head trustee, with responsibility for reviewing and approving or rejecting all decisions made by city council.<ref name=trustee />
In June 2013, Duplessis filed a police complaint claiming that a prostitute had attempted to extort money from him.<ref name=torontostar20130627>{{cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/06/27/mayor_of_laval_que_alleges_extortion_attempt.html |title=Mayor of Laval, Que., alleges extortion attempt |first=Allan |last=Woods |newspaper=Toronto Star |date=June 27, 2013 |accessdate=June 28, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://journalmetro.com/actualites/montreal/335918/alexandre-duplessis-porte-plainte-pour-extorsion/ |title=Alexandre Duplessis porte plainte pour extorsion |date=June 27, 2013 |language=French|newspaper=Metro |location=Montreal |accessdate=June 28, 2013}}</ref><ref name="radiocanada20130627">{{cite news |url=http://actualites.ca.msn.com/regional/montreal/le-maire-de-laval-alexandre-duplessis-porte-plainte-pour-extorsion |title=Le maire de Laval, Alexandre Duplessis, porte plainte pour extorsion |date=June 27, 2013 |publisher=Radio-Canada |language=French |accessdate=June 28, 2013 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
In May 2013, Radio-Canada reported that Duplessis had been fined $500 plus costs for possession of a radar detector.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/Montreal/2013/05/31/002-alexandre-duplessis-contravention-radar.shtml | title= Laval : Alexandre Duplessis, un élu délinquant de la route |publisher=Radio-Canada |language=French|accessdate=June 28, 2013}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist|2}}
{{Mayors of Laval, Quebec}}
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