Jacqueline Lucienne Alquier (; born 29 July 1947) is a French politician. She is a senator in the
Senate of France
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, representing the
Tarn department. She is a member of the
Socialist Party
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. She is also a councillor on the Regional Council of Midi-Pyrénées, representing the Tarn department. From 1985 to 1986 and 1988 to 1993, she was a Deputy representing Tarn in the
National Assembly
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.
Early life
Alquier was born on 29 July 1947 in
Vabre, Tarn, France. Her parents were Emile Bardou and Julia Bardou (née Loup). She married André Alquier in 1968, the same year that she got a job as a secretary.
Political career
Alquier became a deputy mayor in 1977 and departmental councillor for 1979 for
Labruguière
Labruguière (; Languedocien: ''La Bruguièira'') is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.
The Thoré is a river that is part of the commune's eastern border, flows north-northwestward through the northern part of the commune, ...
. She served as the vice chair of the Departmental Council for Tarn between 1982 and 1985.
Remaining chief magistrate and general councillor, she lost the mayoralty in 1995 and gave up her departmental mandate to return to the regional hemicycle, where she chairs the environment and tourism commission.
On September 26, 2004, she became senator for the Tarn department following a break-up of the right-wing party, a position she held until 2014. In the upper house, she is a member of the Social Affairs Committee.
References
Page on the Senate website
1947 births
Living people
People from Tarn (department)
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Deputies of the 7th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 9th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Members of Parliament for Tarn
French senators of the Fifth Republic
Senators of Tarn (department)
Regional councillors of France
French general councillors
Mayors of places in Occitania (administrative region)
Women members of the Senate (France)
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