Wouter Raskin | |
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Member of the Chamber of Representatives | |
Assumed office 2014 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1972 Bilzen |
Citizenship | Belgium |
Nationality | Belgian |
Political party | New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) |
Wouter Raskin (born 4 January 1972, in Bilzen) is a Belgian-Flemish politician and a member of the New Flemish Alliance party. [1]
Raskin was born in Bilzen and studied economics at Hasselt University. He then worked as a coordinator for a social economic company in Sint-Truiden and became an advisor to the N-VA in 2010. [2] In the 2014 Belgian federal election, he was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for the Limburg constituency. [3] In 2019, he was re-elected to the Chamber on second place on the Limburg list. [4]
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