Elio Di Rupo is a Belgian politician who has served as the minister-president of Wallonia since 2019. He is affiliated with the Socialist Party. Di Rupo previously served as the prime minister of Belgium from 6 December 2011 to 11 October 2014,heading the Di Rupo Government. He was the first francophone to hold the office since Paul Vanden Boeynants in 1979,and the country's first socialist prime minister since Edmond Leburton left office in 1974. Di Rupo was also Belgium's first prime minister of non-Belgian descent,and the world's second openly gay person and first openly gay man to be head of government in modern times.
Frank Ignace Georgette Vandenbroucke is a Belgian-Flemish academic and politician of Vooruit who has been serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Social Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo since 2020.
The University of Antwerp is a major Belgian university located in the city of Antwerp. The official abbreviation is UAntwerp. The University of Antwerp has about 20,000 students,which makes it the third-largest university in Flanders. The University of Antwerp is characterised by its high standards in education,internationally competitive research and entrepreneurial approach. It was founded in 2003 after the merger of three smaller universities.
Patrick Yvonne Hugo Dewael,is a liberal Belgian politician. A member of the Flemish Liberals and Democrats,he served as Minister-President of Flanders from 1999 to 2003.
Eduard Marie August "Ward" Beysen was a Belgian politician and well-known freemason. He held a degree in Dutch and history teaching,obtained in 1963,in Lier and started his political career in the seventies in the Flemish liberal party,the Party for Freedom and Progress (PVV),which was renamed Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD) in 1992. Ward Beysen –suffering a depression –died by drowning himself in the lake of Fort 6 in the south of Antwerp.
The Flemish Government is the executive branch of the Flemish Community and the Flemish Region of Belgium. It consists of a government cabinet,headed by the Minister-President and accountable to the Flemish Parliament,and the public administration divided into 13 policy areas,each with an executive department and multiple agencies.
Louis Marie Joseph Tobback is a Belgian politician. Tobback is a Flemish social democrat and member of the political party SP.A. He was the mayor of Leuven (1995–2018) He graduated in Romance philology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is the father of Bruno Tobback,the former president of the Flemish socialist party Different Socialist Party (SP.A).
Jorge Alfonso Alejandro del Castillo Gálvez is a Peruvian lawyer and politician. In his career,he has served in the now abolished Peruvian Chamber of Deputies between 1990 and 1992,in the unicameral Congress of the Republic for six non-consecutive terms,between 1995 and 2011 and again from 2016 to 2019,five of which are consecutive terms,and as Mayor of Lima and the District of Barranco during the 1980s.
Magdalena Godelieve HildaAelvoet is a Belgian politician in Flanders. She was a provincial senator for Antwerp between 1985 and 1991 and a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for the district of Leuven between 1991 and 1994,when she also served in the Flemish Council. She was a member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999,where she was the chair of the Greens. Aelvoet was appointed deputy prime minister and the Minister of Consumer Affairs,Public Health and the Environment in the Verhofstadt I government between 1999 and 2002 and became a Minister of State in 1995.
Lode Craeybeckx served as mayor of Antwerp,Belgium from 1947 until his death in 1976,becoming the longest-serving mayor of the city in its history.
Maria Bertha Charlotte (Mieke) Vogels Belgian politician from Flanders in the environmentalist party Groen!.
Meyrem Almaci is a Belgian politician from Flanders and member of the ecological party Groen. On 10 June 2007,she was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for the first time. She was re-elected in 2010 and in 2014 when she also became the president of Groen. In 2019 she left the Belgian parliament and was elected in the Flemish Parliament.
Jan Jambon is a Belgian politician of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) who has been serving as Minister-President of Flanders since 2019. He replaced Kris Peeters as a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in 2007. The N-VA was,at that time,partnered with the Christian-Democratic and Flemish party. In June 2010 and May 2014 he was re-elected on an N-VA list.
Zuhal Demir is a Belgian lawyer and politician affiliated to the N-VA. Demir was elected as a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in 2010 and served there until 2017. She is currently a member of the Flemish Parliament and the Flemish minister for Justice and Enforcement,Environment,Energy and Tourism. Previously she served as Secretary of State for Poverty Reduction in the Belgian Government (2017-2018).
The Belgian provincial,municipal and district elections of 2012 took place on 14 October. As with the previous 2006 elections,these are no longer organised by the Belgian federal state but instead by the respective regions:
Albert-Édouard Janssen was a Belgian politician,banker and professor born in Antwerp,Belgium on 1 April 1883 and died in Valduc Castle in Hamme-Mille,Belgium on 29 March 1966.
Peter Mertens is a Belgian politician who led the Workers' Party of Belgium from 2008 to 2021. He has served as a member of the Chamber of Representatives since 2019,and as a municipal councilor in Antwerp since 2013.
Andreas Frans Theodoor Detiège was a Belgian politician for the social democratic Belgian Socialist Party,a Federal Representative (1947–1974) and Mayor of Antwerp (1976),after he had been Antwerp's Alderman responsible for Social Affairs (1947–1976) in the municipal government of mayor Lode Craeybeckx.
Daniel Alain Marie Bacquelaine is a Belgian Walloon politician. As a member of the Reformist Movement,he served as the Federal Minister for Pensions in the Michel Government and Wilmès Government and a member of parliament since 1994.
Anne C.S.M. Barzin is a Belgian politician. She was a representative in the Chamber of Representatives from 1999 to 2007,a member of the Parliament of Wallonia from 2007 to 2014 and a Senator in the Senate of Belgium from 2014 to 2019. She was a member of the Liberal Reformist Party and the Reformist Movement.
