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Jacqueline Maquet | |
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| Maquet in 2018 | |
| Member of the National Assembly for Pas-de-Calais's 2nd constituency | |
| In office 20 June 2012 –9 June 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Catherine Génisson |
| Succeeded by | Agnès Pannier-Runacher |
| Member of the National Assembly for Pas-de-Calais's 1st constituency | |
| In office 20 June 2007 –19 June 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Jean-Pierre Defontaine |
| Succeeded by | Jean-Jacques Cottel |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 May 1949 |
| Political party | Socialist Party (2007-2017) Renaissance (2017–present) |
Jacqueline Maquet (born 13 May 1949) is a French politician. She was a member of the National Assembly of France representing Pas-de-Calais 2nd constituency, [1] and is a member of Renaissance. She was formerly a member of the Socialist Party.
Maquet was elected to the National Assembly as a Socialist Party member representing Pas-de-Calais's 1st constituency in the 2007 French legislative election,succeeding Jean-Pierre Defontaine who had represented the constituency since 1978 for the Radical Party of the Left. She moved to stand in Pas-de-Calais's 2nd constituency for the 2012 French legislative elections and was elected to the vacant seat.
She was re-elected as a candidate for La Republic En Marche! (later Renaissance),the party of French president Emmanuel Macron,in the 2017 and 2022 French legislative elections. [2] She faced allegations of opportunism over her decision to stand as a candidate for La Republic En Marche! in 2017. [3]
Referring to herself as a "left-wing Macronist",she disagreed with the government's controversial pension reform plan that sparked protests and strikes across the country in 2020. [4]
She stood down as a candidate for the 2024 French legislative election. [5]