Jacques Jean Henri Buchmann (5 March 1932 – 24 May 2018) was a Belgian politician. A member of the

Party for Freedom and Progress The Party for Freedom and Progress ( nl, Partij voor Vrijheid en Vooruitgang; french: Parti de la Liberté et du Progrès; german: Partei für Freiheit und Fortschritt, PVV-PLP) was a liberal political party in Belgium which existed from 1961 unti ...

, he was first elected to the Chamber of Representatives in 1974. Buchmann lost reelection in 1977, but regained his seat in the snap elections of 1978. He sat on the

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between 1980 and 1985. Buchmann retained his position as a federal representative until 1985, when he won election to the

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, from which he stepped down in 1995. Between 1982 and 2001, Buchmann was mayor of Kapellen. In 1987 there came a law which forbade people to be in both the parlement as a mayor. So he stepped down as mayor, in which his party member Jan Kerremans took his place. Until 1988 when Jacky became mayor again aftere stepping down in the parlement. He died on 24 May 2018, aged 86.

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1932 births 2018 deaths Mayors of places in Belgium Members of the Senate (Belgium) Members of the Chamber of Representatives (Belgium) Members of the Flemish Parliament Government ministers of Flanders Government ministers of Belgium People from Kapellen, Belgium Party for Freedom and Progress politicians {{Belgium-mayor-stub