Jacqueline Maquet

French politician

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Jacqueline Maquet
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	(1949-05-13) 13 May 1949 (age 75)
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.

Political career

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]