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Sabine de Bethune | |
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 Sabine de Bethune in 2011 | |
| President of the Senate | |
| In office 11 October 2011 –14 October 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Danny Pieters |
| Succeeded by | Christine Defraigne |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 July 1958 Leopoldstad,Belgian Congo (now Kinshasa,Congo-Kinshasa) |
| Political party | Christian Democratic and Flemish |
| Alma mater | Catholic University of Leuven |
| Website | Official website |
Baroness Sabine de Bethune (born 16 July 1958) is a Belgian politician and a member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party. Since June 2021 she has been appointed as a judge on the Constitutional Court.
The daughter of former Kortrijk mayor,Emmanuel de Bethune,she belongs to a baronial family of the Belgian nobility,in right of which she is properly styled baroness. Sabine de Bethune. She holds a Master of Laws from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
She was elected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 1995. [1] Sabine is also a member of the AWEPA Governing Council. [2] She was vice-president of the Senate between 1999 and 2003,and became the 34th President of the Belgian Senate on 11 October 2011. She became an Officer in the Order of Leopold on 6 June 2010 and a Grand Officer on 21 May 2014. [1]
