Martine Beaugrand is a

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politician, who was acclaimed as the new interim mayor of

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on July 3, 2013 following the resignation of Alexandre Duplessis."Councillor Martine Beaugrand becomes new Laval mayor"
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'', July 3, 2013. She is the city's first female mayor. Beaugrand was first elected to

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in the 2009 municipal election, representing the

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ward as a member of the Parti PRO des Lavallois, and has sat as an independent councillor since the party's dissolution in 2012. She was one of only two city councillors, along with France Dubreuil, who was ''not'' alleged to have been involved in the municipal corruption scandal that has affected the city since the resignation of

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in 2012. She did not run for another term in the 2013 municipal election.

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