Jacques Maire | |
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Member of the
National Assembly for Hauts-de-Seine's 8th constituency | |
In office 21 June 2017 – 21 June 2022 | |
Preceded by | Jean-Jacques Guillet |
Succeeded by | Prisca Thévenot |
Personal details | |
Born | Enghien-les-Bains, France | 4 April 1962
Political party | La République En Marche! (since 2016) |
Other political affiliations | Socialist Party (until 2016) |
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Alma mater |
Paris Dauphine University Sciences Po École nationale d'administration |
Jacques Maire (born 4 April 1962) is a French politician who served as the member of the National Assembly for the 8th constituency of Hauts-de-Seine from 2017 to 2022. He is a member of La République En Marche! (LREM). [1]
In Parliament, Maire serves as deputy chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. He is also a member of the Franco-Japanese Friendship Group and the Franco-Australian Friendship Group. [2]
In addition to his committee assignments, Maire has been a member of the French delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2017. [3] In this capacity, he serves on the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy and as the Assembly's rapporteur on Algeria (2019) [4] and the poisoning of Alexei Navalny (2020). [5]
In September 2018, after François de Rugy's appointment to the government, Maire supported Barbara Pompili's candidacy for the presidency of the National Assembly. [6] Since 2020, he has been serving as his parliamentary group's co-rapporteur on the government's pension reform plans, alongside Guillaume Gouffier-Cha, Carole Grandjean and Corinne Vignon. [7] He co-founded a new political party alongside Pompili; En Commun in 2020. [8]
In April 2021, Maire was included in a list of eight public officials that were banned by Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs from entering the country in retaliation for EU sanctions on Russians. [9]
In 2019, Maire voted in favour of the French ratification of the European Union's Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada. [10] In 2020, Maire co-authored (along with Michèle Tabarot) a parliamentary report recommending tighter parliamentary oversight of government decisions on arms exports. [11]