Yoleen Van Camp (born 25 August 1987 in Antwerp) is a Belgian politician and is affiliated to the New Flemish Alliance. She has been a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives since 2014. [1] [2]
Yoleen Van Camp (born 25 August 1987 in Antwerp) is a Belgian politician and is affiliated to the New Flemish Alliance. She has been a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives since 2014. [1] [2]
Van Camp obtained a high school degree (Latin-Modern Languages) in Herentals. After this, she obtained her master's degree in Nursing. Right before being elected in 2014, she gained a PhD in Medical Sciences from the University of Antwerp. [3] She lives in Herentals.
She was elected as a local councilwoman for the town council of Kasterlee in 2012. As she moved to Herentals, she no longer holds office in Kasterlee since December 2015. [4] [5]
At the Belgian federal elections on 25 May 2014, Van Camp was elected for the Chamber of Representatives with a higher number of votes than she expected. [6] She took office on 19 June 2014. [2] She was the youngest Flemish representative. [7] She is a member of several parliamentary committees, among which the Health, Environment and Social Innovations Committee and the Naturalization Committee. [1]
On 11 July 2017, she caused concern by tweeting that she does not acknowledge the Belgian National Holiday as a public holiday. She considers 11 July, the non-official Flemish Region Holiday, to be her national holiday. [8] [9]
In Juli 2018 Yoleen caused an uproar in Herentals when her LinkedIn profile briefly contained an internal e-mail in which she disrespected several of her fellow political co-workers. She even made a comment about one co-worker with a speech impediment, saying it was exhausting communicating with him. When confronted with the e-mail Yoleen made quick accusations telling her ex-boyfriend was probably responsible, hacking her LinkedIn profile. Her boyfriend was quick to dismiss these accusations, to which Yoleen filed a complaint with the police.
In the following days several members of N-VA Herentals left or were forced to leave the party. Some of them had publicly said the accusations Yoleen made towards her ex-boyfriend were unfounded. They also blamed Yoleen for being unrespectful towards other people.to which some of the former members started a new political party, HA! (Herentals Anders / Herentals Differently).
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