Elio Di Rupo is a Belgian socialist politician who is the Minister-President of Wallonia. He served as the Prime Minister of Belgium from 6 December 2011 to 11 October 2014,and headed the Di Rupo Government. Di Rupo 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. He 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 UA,but UAntwerpen is more recently used. 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.
Marianne Leonie Petrus Thyssen is a Belgian politician of the Christian Democratic and Flemish Party (CD&V) who served as European Commissioner for Employment,Social Affairs,Skills and Labour Mobility between 2014 and 2019.
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.
Laurette A. J. Onkelinx is a Belgian politician from the Francophone Socialist Party. She was the Deputy Prime Minister –Minister of Social Affairs and Public Health in the Belgian federal government,i.e.,the Di Rupo Government,which took office on 6 December 2011.
Matthias Edward Storme is a Belgian lawyer,academic and conservative philosopher.
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.
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.
Steven Vanackere,is a Belgian politician from Flanders and member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party (CD&V). He held the portfolios of Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Institutional Reform in the Leterme II government. He is the son of Leo Vanackere,who,following a political career as a Member of the Chamber of Representatives and the Senate of Belgium,became the Provincial Governor of West Flanders in 1979. His grandfather,Remi Wallays,had also been a senator and had been a former Mayor of Wevelgem.
Maria Bertha Charlotte (Mieke) Vogels Belgian politician from Flanders in the environmentalist party Groen!.
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.
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 has 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.
The Belgian provincial,municipal and district elections of 2018 took place on Sunday 14 October 2018. They are organised by the respective regions:
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.
