Johan Vande Lanotte | |
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| Deputy Prime Minister | |
| In office 5 December 2011 –October 2014 | |
| of Economy,Consumer affairs and North Sea | |
| In office 5 December 2011 –October 2014 | |
| Senator | |
| In office 28 June 2007 –5 December 2011 | |
| Chairperson of SP.A | |
| In office 2005–2007 | |
| Preceded by | Steve Stevaert |
| Succeeded by | Caroline Gennez |
| Deputy Prime Minister | |
| In office 1994–2005 | |
| Minister of Budget | |
| In office 1999–2005 | |
| Minister of the Interior and of Civil Service Affairs | |
| In office 1994–1998 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 July 1955 Poperinge,Belgium |
| Political party | SP.A |
| Residence | Ostend |
| Alma mater | University of Antwerp University of Brussels (VUB) |
| Occupation | Politician Professor |
| Website | Official website |
Johan Cyrille Corneel Vande Lanotte (born 6 July 1955) is a Belgian politician. He is a member of the SP.A,and became its party president on 15 October 2005. He handed down his leadership positions after the SP.A lost in the 2007 general election. Between 1995 and 2014,he served more than 13 years as Deputy Prime Minister,the longest period for a Flemish socialist after WW II. In his last term he served as the Minister of Economy,Consumer affairs and North Sea in the Di Rupo I Government. With the formation of a new Centre-Right federal government,which excluded his party,Johan Vande Lanotte returned to local politics in October 2014 in Ostend,where he took up his position as alderman for the economy and tourism at Ostend City Council. From August 2015 until the end of 2018 Vande Lanotte was the mayor of Ostend. During his political career he continued to work as a professor at the University of Ghent,specialized in Constitutional Law and Human Rights. Since 2019,he is a lawyer (senior legal advisor) in the law office Van Steenbrugge [1] in Gent. He was the initiator of the Turkey Tribunal [2] held in Geneva in September 2021. Vande Lanotte also published one of the six reports of the Turkey Tribunal entitled "Crimes Against Humanity under the Rome Statute in Turkey Today" [3]
