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| image = Lens - Sochaux (15-09-2018) 37.jpg

| caption = Maquet in 2018

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|05|13|df=y}}

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| office1 = Member of the [[National Assembly (France)|National Assembly]] for [[Pas-de-Calais]]'s [[Pas-de-Calais's 2nd constituency|2nd]] constituency

| term_start1 = 20 June 2012

| term_end1 = 9 June 2024

| predecessor1 = [[Catherine Génisson]]

| successor1 = [[Agnès Pannier-Runacher]]

| office2 = Member of the [[National Assembly (France)|National Assembly]] for [[Pas-de-Calais]]'s [[Pas-de-Calais's 1st constituency|1st]] constituency

| predecessor2 = [[Jean-Pierre Defontaine]]

| successor2 = [[Jean-Jacques Cottel]]

| term_start2 = 20 June 2007

| term_end2 = 19 June 2012

| party = [[Socialist Party (France)|Socialist Party]] (2007-2017)<br />[[Renaissance (French political party)|Renaissance]] (2017–present)

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'''Jacqueline Maquet''' (born 13 May 1949) is a French politician. She was a member of the [[National Assembly of France]] representing [[Pas-de-Calais]] [[Pas-de-Calais's 2nd constituency|2nd constituency]],<ref name='anfr'>{{cite web

|title=LISTE DÉFINITIVE DES DÉPUTÉS ÉLUS À L'ISSUE DES DEUX TOURS

}}</ref> and is a member of [[Renaissance (French political party)|Renaissance]]. She was formerly a member of the [[Socialist Party (France)|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 (French political party)|Renaissance]]), the party of French president [[Emmanuel Macron]], in the [[2017 French legislative election|2017]] and [[2022 French legislative election]]s.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-19 |title=2e circonscription : Jacqueline Maquet (Ensemble !) réélue sans trembler |url=https://www.lobservateur.fr/2e-circonscription-jacqueline-maquet-ensemble-reelue-sans-trembler/ |access-date=2024-07-10 |language=fr-FR}}</ref> She faced allegations of opportunism over her decision to stand as a candidate for ''La Republic En Marche!'' in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fé |first=H. |date=2017-05-16 |title=Jacqueline Maquet, investie par En Marche ! : « C'est tout sauf de l'opportunisme ! » |url=https://www.lavoixdunord.fr/163782/article/2017-05-16/jacqueline-maquet-investie-par-en-marche-c-est-tout-sauf-de-l-opportunisme |access-date=2024-07-10 |website=La Voix du Nord |language=fr}}</ref>

Referring to herself as a "left-wing Macronist", she disagreed with the government's controversial pension reform plan that sparked [[2019–2020 French pension reform strike|protests and strikes across the country]] in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-05-17 |title=LREM: ces députés frondeurs qui défient Macron |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/lrem-ces-deputes-frondeurs-qui-defient-macron-20200517 |access-date=2024-07-10 |website=Le Figaro |language=fr}}</ref>

She stood down as a candidate for the [[2024 French legislative election]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-14 |title=Arrageois : Jacqueline Maquet, la députée sortante, ne se représente pas |url=https://www.lobservateur.fr/arrageois-jacqueline-maquet-la-deputee-sortante-ne-se-represente-pas/ |access-date=2024-07-10 |language=fr-FR}}</ref>

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