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Marie-Rose Morel

Marie Rose Louise Constant Morel (26 August 1972 – 8 February 2011) was a Flemish-Belgian politician. She became a member of the Flemish Parliament for the Vlaams Belang in 2004, after leaving the New-Flemish Alliance. In 1994, Morel was elected Miss Flanders. She was diagnosed with stage IV uterine cancer in 2008. On 8 February 2011, she died from the disease. She was 38. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Mark Eyskens

Marc Maria Frans, Viscount Eyskens (born 29 April 1933), known as Mark Eyskens, is a Belgian economist, professor and politician in the Christian People's Party, now called Christian Democratic and Flemish, and briefly served as the prime minister of Belgium in 1981. He was born in Leuven, the son of Gaston Eyskens, and lived for a time at the International House of New York. When Germany invaded Belgium, Eyskens and his mother fled to France but upon the Belgian capitulation, the family returned to Leuven. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Mathias De Clercq

Mathias Toon Cecil Willy De Clercq, esq. (born 26 December 1981, Ghent) is a Belgian politician. He is a member of the Flemish liberal party. At the moment he is the mayor of Ghent. From 2007 until 2014, he was a federal representative, and from 2014 until 2019, he was a Flemish representative. From 2007 until 2019, he was a schepen in Ghent. He belongs to the social liberal wing of his party. De Clercq was born in Ghent, son of lawyer and alderman Yannick Frans de Clercq (1954), grand officer of the Order of Leopold II. He is the grandson of Viscount Willy De Clercq, a former European Commissioner. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Matthias Diependaele

Matthias Diependaele (born 7 Augustus 1979 in Sint-Niklaas) is a Belgian politician affiliated to the N-VA who is the current Minister for Finance, Budget, Housing and Immovable Heritage in the Flemish Government. He previously served as a member of the Flemish Parliament between 2009 and 2019. In 2006, he graduated with a law degree from the KU Leuven, having specialized himself in European and international law. He started his political career within the N-VA as a parliamentary aide to MEP Frieda Brepoels. In the 2009 regional elections, at the age of 29, he was elected as a member of the Flemish parliament. In 2013, Diependaele became the parliamentary leader for the N-VA in the Flemish parliament, succeeding Kris Van Dijck. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Meryame Kitir

Meryame Kitir (born 20 April 1980) is a Belgian politician of the Forward party who served as the Minister of Development Cooperation and Urban Policy in the De Croo Government from October 2020 until December 2022, although the last two months she was out on sick leave. She has also been serving on the Genk municipal council since 2019, and previously sat on the Maasmechelen municipal council from 2006 to 2016. Kitir has been a member of the Chamber of Representatives since June 2007. In 2015, she became leader of her party's parliamentary group. She is known for her fiery manner in addressing issues, commonly having to do with the specific problems faced by the vast labour force of the Limburg province she represents. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Meyrem Almaci

Meyrem Almaci (Sint-Niklaas, 25 February 1976) 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. Almaci was born to a Turkish immigrant family hailing from Kozluçay [tr] in Yalvaç, Isparta Province. She had 10 siblings, two of whom died young. She has Turkish-Belgian dual citizenship and is married with two children. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Mieke Vogels

Maria Bertha Charlotte (Mieke) Vogels (born 20 April 1954) Belgian politician from Flanders in the environmentalist party Groen!. She quit as minister after her party Agalev was heavily defeated in the federal parliament elections of May 2003. She was succeeded by her fellow party member Adelheid Byttebier. In October 2006 she was elected for the city council of Antwerp, as well as for the district council of Deurne. From 2007 on, she could only accept one of those mandates, and therefore she chose to continue in the district council. In November 2007, she was elected as chairwoman of the party Groen!, where she succeeded Vera Dua. After the elections for the Flemish Parliament in June 2009, her party had to deal with another disappointing outcome. Mieke Vogels decided to give up her position as chairwoman so that a younger generation could take over the lead. She was succeeded by Wouter Van Besien in October 2009. Vogels continues her work as member of the Flemish Parliament till the next elections in Belgium. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Nabilla Ait Daoud

Nabilla Ait Daoud (born 4 January 1977) is a Belgian politician affiliated to the New Flemish Alliance party who is the deputy mayor of Antwerp and a member of the Flemish government serving as minister for childcare and animal welfare. Ait Daoud graduated with a pharmacology degree in 1998 before working as an assistant in a pharmacy store. In 2005 she opened a sandwich shop in Antwerp. In 2012, she was elected as a municipal councillor in Antwerp for the N-VA and a year later was appointed by Bart De Wever as deputy mayor and an alderman for the city. During her time as an alderman, she planned to make Antwerp the first low emissions city in Belgium and despite coming from a Muslim background, has campaigned for a ban on non-stun slaughter in the city, arguing that “religion should not be a reason to make an animal suffer.” (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Nadia Sminate

Nadia Sminate (born 29 December 1981 in Bonheiden) is a Belgian politician and is affiliated to the N-VA. She was elected as a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in 2010. She was born to a Belgian (Flemish) mother and a Moroccan father. Sminate studied romance philology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, graduating in 2003. Afterwards she was an adult education teacher; first in Ganshoren and then in Meise-Jette. She was then a lingerie model for a while and was elected Miss Handelsgids. She became a member of the Flemish nationalist N-VA party, which she served in the Chamber of Representatives from 2007 to 2009. Thereafter she was promoted to staff member of Philippe Muyters, then Flemish Minister of Finance, Budget and Spatial Planning. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Nahima Lanjri

Nahima Lanjri (born 17 February 1968 in Borgerhout) is a Belgian politician and a member of the CD&V. She is of Moroccan descent. She was elected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 2007. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Nelly Maes

Nelly Maes (born 25 February 1941) is a Belgian social liberal politician from the Flanders region. She began her professional career as a teacher. Her professional political career started in 1971 when, on behalf of Hugo Schiltz, she was stood candidate and was elected for the Volksunie into the Belgian Chamber of People's Representatives, where she seated until 1977, becoming an elected senator in the next year, 1978, until 1981. Upon being elected as vice-president of the party, she left parliamentary work, as the Volksunie went through rough seas internally, when separists and regionalists, leftists and conservatives, could't find a way to solve the problems concerning the whereabouts of the party which saw its political aims come true when the Belgian state deeply reformed itself from a unitarian state into a federation. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Nico Cué

Nicanor Cué (born 6 September 1956), known as Nico Cué, is a Spanish-born Belgian trade unionist and politician. He served as the General Secretary of the General Federation of Belgian Labour (FGTB) Metalworkers for two decades. In the 2019 European Parliament election, Cué and Violeta Tomić are European Left's lead candidates (Spitzenkandidaten) for the President of the European Commission. He was not elected. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Olivier Maingain

Olivier D. A. Gh. Maingain (born 3 August 1958) is a Belgian francophone politician and former president of DéFI. After graduating as Master of Laws he qualified as a lawyer in 1982. In 1983 he became president of the FDF Youth. He was elected as a city councillor of Brussels in 1988. He entered the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region in 1989 and he was a Member of the Chamber of Representatives from 1991 to 2019. He became the president of the FDF (English: Democratic Front of the Francophones) in 1995. In 1995 too, he became an alderman of Brussels. He was elected as a city councillor of the municipality of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert (Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe in Dutch) in 2006, where the city council voted him for mayor. In the 2007 elections Maingain received 45,439 votes in the electoral district Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Patrick Janssens

Patrick Janssens (born 19 September 1956) is a Belgian former politician. He was a member of the SP.a and the former mayor of the port city Antwerp. Janssens studied 'Political and Social Sciences' and 'Applied Economic Sciences' (both Masters) at the University of Antwerp and Statistics at the London School of Economics. From 1979 to 1985 he was an assistant in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Antwerp, first of Jan Vranken (with whom he wrote the first National Report on Poverty in Belgium, within the framework of the First European Anti-Poverty Programme) and then of Herman Deleeck. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Paul Magnette

Paul Magnette, born 28 June 1971 in Leuven ( Belgium), is a Belgian politician. Since 2019, he is the leader of the Socialist Party, social democratic French-speaking party in Belgium. Since 2012, he is also mayor of Charleroi. At academic level, he is a former political science professor at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and Director of the Institute of European Studies of the ULB. He was appointed minister in the Belgian federal government from 2007 to 2013 and was Minister-President of Wallonia from 2014 to 2017. He also was a member of the Senate of Belgium, of the Parliament of Wallonia and of the Parliament of the French Community. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Peter Mertens

Peter Mertens (born 17 December 1969) 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. Mertens was born in Antwerp. In 1987, when he was 18 years old, he founded the Studenten tegen Racisme (Students against Racism, SteR) with fellow UFSIA student Marc Spruyt. Four years later, when he was studying sociology at Ghent University, he led a student protest movement against the Gulf War. At this time he joined the youth organisation of the Workers' Party of Belgium, the Marxistisch-Leninistische Beweging (Marxist–Leninist Movement, MLB). With this organisation he was also present at a wide range of student activities, like the solidarity campaign with the workers of the shipyard Boelwerf in Temse, which was threatened with closure. In 1994 Mertens became the president of the MLB, which then participated in the strike movement against proposed reforms by the Minister of Higher Education in the government of the French community, Michel Lebrun. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Petra De Sutter

Petra De Sutter (Oudenaarde, 10 June 1963) is a Belgian gynaecologist and politician, currently serving as federal Deputy Prime Minister. A member of the Groen party, she was previously a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 until 2020, when she was named Deputy PM with the responsibility of overseeing Belgium's public administration and public enterprises in Alexander De Croo's government. She is the first transgender minister in Europe. Before entering into politics, she worked as professor of gynaecology at Ghent University, serving as head of the Department of Reproductive Medicine at Ghent University Hospital (UZ Gent). (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Philippe Moureaux

Philippe Moureaux (12 April 1939 – 15 December 2018) was a Belgian politician, senator, mayor of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, and professor of economic history at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He held the honorary title of Minister of State and was a member of the Order of Leopold II and the Order of Leopold. His first government post was a Minister of the Interior and Institutional Reform in the government of Wilfried Martens (Martens III) in 1980. Moureaux's name was attached to the loi contre le racisme et la xénophobie (Law against Racism and Xenophobia) of 30 July 1981 as he was then serving as Minister of Justice. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Pieter De Crem

Pieter Frans Norbert Jozef Raymond De Crem (pronounced [ˈpitər də ˈkrɛm]; born 22 July 1962) is a Belgian politician and member of Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V). He has been a Member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives since 1995. He headed the CD&V fraction in the Chamber of Representatives from 2003 to 2007. Since 1995, he has been the mayor of Aalter in East Flanders. De Crem became the Belgian minister of defense on 21 December 2007. On 5 March 2013, he was also appointed First Deputy Prime Minister in the Belgian federal government. From 11 October 2014 to 9 December 2018, he served as Secretary of State for Foreign Trade in the Michel I Government. He was subsequently appointed Minister for Security and the Interior under the Michel II Government.[citation needed] (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Princess Astrid of Belgium

Princess Astrid of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este (born 5 June 1962), is the second child and first daughter of King Albert II and Queen Paola, and the younger sister to the current Belgian monarch, King Philippe. She is married to Prince Lorenz of Belgium, head of the Austria-Este branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, and is fifth in line of succession to the Belgian throne. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium

Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium, Lady Moncada (born 30 September 1956), is a member of the Belgian royal family. She is the half-aunt of King Philippe of Belgium and Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg. Princess Marie-Esméralda is a journalist, author and documentary-maker. She is also an environmental activist and a campaigner for women’s rights and indigenous people’s rights. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Queen Mathilde of Belgium

Mathilde (born Jonkvrouw Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz [matild dyd(ə)kɛm dakɔ]; 20 January 1973) is Queen of the Belgians as the wife of King Philippe. She is the first native-born Belgian queen. She has founded and assisted charities to decrease poverty in the country. Mathilde attended primary school in Bastogne and then attended secondary school at the Institut de la Vierge Fidèle in Brussels. From 1991 until 1994, Mathilde attended the Institut Libre Marie Haps in Brussels, where she studied speech therapy and graduated magna cum laude. She worked as a speech therapist in her own practice in Brussels from 1995 to 1999. She also worked in several Brussels schools. She earned a master's degree in psychology at the Université catholique de Louvain in 2002 with honours (cum laude). Mathilde became the first member of the Belgian royal family with a Belgian university degree. She also took a ten-day leadership course at Harvard University in 2011. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Raoul Hedebouw

Raoul Hedebouw (born 12 July 1977) is a Belgian politician who has served as the president of the Workers' Party of Belgium (PVDA-PTB) since 2021. He previously served as the national spokesperson of the party until 2021, as well as fraction leader in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives. He furthermore serves as member of the Liège City Council. Hedebouw joined the Marxist PVDA-PTB and became its spokesperson in 2008. He was first elected as council member in Liège after the local elections of 2012. After the federal elections of 2014 he became one of the first two federal MPs for the PVDA-PTB. Hedebouw often gives his speeches in the Chamber in both Dutch and French, changing from one language to the other between sentences. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Roosmarijn Beckers

Roosmarijn Beckers (born 23 October, 1986) is a Flemish politician and a member of the Flemish parliament for Vlaams Belang. Beckers is the daughter of former Vlaams Belang politician Marleen Govaerts and has described herself as coming from a Flemish nationalist family. She obtained a master's degree in history from the Catholic University of Leuven. Her thesis and area of study focused on the treatment of Roma gypsies during the Holocaust. She was a history teacher before working as an assistant in her husband's law firm. Beckers is married with three children. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Rudi Vervoort

Rudi Vervoort (born 20 November 1958) is a Brussels politician. He has been the mayor of Evere since 1998 and member of the Brussels Parliament. He became the Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region on 7 May 2013 and is responsible for Local Authorities, Urban Development, Monuments and Sites, Environmental Maintenance (responsibility delegated to the Secretary of State Rachid Madrane), Development Cooperation and Regional Statistics. He holds a degree in law. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Sabine Laruelle

Sabine Laruelle (born 2 June 1965) is a Belgian politician and a member of the liberal party Mouvement Réformateur. She has been federal minister for the Self-employed and Agriculture (2003-2008), federal minister for the Self-employed, Agriculture and Science Policy (2008-2011). Sabine Laruelle sit again in the Federal Government from December 2011 to October 2014 as Minister of the Self-employed, SME's and Agriculture. She is also member of the Municipal council of Gembloux, where she lives nowadays. Sabine Laruelle is an Agronomist engineer and environment advisor with a Certificate in administrative management. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Sammy Mahdi

Sammy Mahdi (born 21 September 1988) is a Belgian Christian-Democrat politician, a member and the president of CD&V, who in March 2020 became a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives. On 1 October 2020, Mahdi became Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration in the new government led by Alexander De Croo. In June 2022, he became the president of the CD&V party. Mahdi was born in Ixelles (Brussels) to an Iraqi refugee father and a Flemish mother. He studied political science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and obtained a master's degree in international and European law. From 2014 to 2017, he was a parliamentary assistant to Flemish Member of Parliament Joris Poschet. Since 2016 he is also a regular columnist for the newspaper De Morgen. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Sarah Schlitz

Sarah Schlitz (born 7 December 1986, in Liège) is a Belgian politician from Ecolo. She was Belgian Secretary of State for Gender Equality, Equal Opportunity and Diversity in the government of the prime minister Alexander De Croo. In Liège, Sarah Schlitz has been involved in grassroots community organizing focusing on ecological, social and feminist politics. She chose to join Ecolo, rather than the Socialist Party of which her grandfather was a member. Between 2015 and 2018, she was campaign coordinator at the ecological association Inter-Environnement Wallonie [fr], and from 2016 to 2018 she was co-chair of the Coalition Climat. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Siegfried Bracke

Siegfried Theofiel Hortense Bracke (born 21 February 1953) is a former Belgian politician and is affiliated to the N-VA. He was elected as a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in 2010. Bracke was born in Ghent. Before his political career he had a long career as a journalist, working for the VRT (Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep - the primary Flemish-Belgian broadcasting company), hosting various politics-related shows such as Villa Politica and Bracke en Crabbé. He is a supporter of Orangism. After the elections in 2019 he ended his political career. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Sophie Wilmès

Sophie Wilmès (French: [sɔfi wilmɛs]; born 15 January 1975) is a Belgian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Belgium from 2019 to 2020. She later served as minister of Foreign Affairs from 2020 to 2022. A member of the Reformist Movement, she is the first woman to hold either position. Wilmès was elected to the Chamber of Representatives in 2014, and served as budget minister in the first and second governments of Charles Michel from 2015 to 2019. In the aftermath of the 2019 Belgian federal election, Philippe of Belgium appointed Wilmès to lead a caretaker government (the Wilmès I Government) before she formed an executive government (the Wilmès II Government) in March 2020 to handle the COVID-19 pandemic. In October 2020, she joined the government of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo as foreign minister and deputy prime minister. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Stefaan De Clerck

Stefaan Maria Joris Yolanda De Clerck (born 12 December 1951) is a Belgian politician and former Minister of Justice of Belgium. He was Minister of Justice from 1995 until 1998 as well, when he resigned following the escape from prison of Marc Dutroux. He has served as chairman of Christian Democratic and Flemish party and held a seat in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives. De Clerck was mayor of Kortrijk. Regarding re-instituting the death penalty in Belgium after the 'Joker' murders of 2009, GlobalPost quotes De Clerck as saying: 'That is not something for our times. It's not by killing somebody that we solve society's problems, just look at the United States.' (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Stephanie D'Hose

Stephanie D'Hose (born 1 June 1981) is a Belgian politician who has been President of the Senate since October 2020. D'Hose was a parliamentary assistant from 2009–2014 and is Deputy Private Secretary to Sven Gatz. She has been a City Councillor in Ghent since 2013 and was elected to the Flemish Parliament on 26 May 2019. D'Hose was appointed to the Belgian Federal Parliament for Open VLD on 4 July 2019, and appointed to the Senate. In the division of powers within the Alexander De Croo government, Open VLD was given the Senate presidency and D'Hose was nominated for the role on 13 October 2020. At 39, she became the youngest person to hold the position. Later that month she became seriously ill with a blood infection and was confined to bed. She tested negative for COVID-19. In January 2022, while she was president of the senate, D'Hose spoke in favour of the abolition of the institution. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Steve Stevaert

Steve Stevaert (Dutch: [ˈstif ˈsteːvaːrt]; born Robert Stevaert [ˈroːbərt ˈsteːvaːrt]; 12 April 1954 – 2 April 2015) was a Belgian politician of the Flemish Socialist Party: the SP.A. Stevaert was born on 12 April 1954 in Rijkhoven in Belgium. After his studies at the 'Hoger Rijksinstituut voor Toerisme, Hotelwezen en Voedingsbedrijven', Stevaert started as a bar owner in 1972. Stevaert became politically active in 1982 under the wings of his mentor Willy Claes. Stevaert was elected to the Provincial Council of Limburg from 1985 to 1995. He became mayor and member of the city council of Hasselt in 1995. There he became famous for his policy of free public transport in 1997, which gave him his nickname 'Steve Stunt'. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Sven Gatz

Sven Gatz (born 6 May 1967 in Sint-Agatha-Berchem) is a Flemish Open Vld politician and the current Brussels Minister of Finance, Budget, Civil Service and Multilingualism in the government of the Brussels-Capital Region. From 1999 to 2011 he was member of the Flemish Parliament and from 2007 to 2011 he was leader of the Open Vld group there. He started as member of the Volksunie and switched to Open Vld when Volksunie was split. From 2000 to 2012 he was also member of the municipal council of Jette. In the 2012 local elections, he was not re-elected. In 2011, he left politics to become director of the Union of Belgian Brewers. In July 2014, he returned to politics when he became Flemish Minister for Culture, Youth, Media and Brussels in the Bourgeois Government as Open Vld had to provide the required minister living in Brussels. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Theo Francken

Theo Francken (born 7 February 1978) is a Belgian politician who has been a member of the Chamber of Representatives since 2010. He is a member of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), a conservative Flemish nationalist party. Francken was made state secretary for asylum and migration in the first Charles Michel cabinet in 2014, where he became prominent for his controversial zero tolerance approach to illegal immigration in the midst of the European migrant crisis. Francken and the N-VA opposed Belgium's support of the Global Compact for Migration, leading them to exit the coalition government in December 2018 and thereby trigger its collapse. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Tinne Van der Straeten

Tinne Van der Straeten (born 1 April 1978) is a Belgian politician who has been serving as Minister of Energy in the De Croo Government since October 2020. She is a member of the Groen party. She previously served in the Chamber of Representatives for Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde from 2007 to 2010 and later for Brussels from 2019 until 2020, when she resigned to become energy minister. In the 2007 elections, Van der Straeten was elected a representative in the Belgian federal parliament for the first time. Three years later, in the 2010 elections, she wasn't re-elected. In 2018, Van der Straeten re-enters the political foreground. She becomes alderman of Public Works in Koekelberg and a candidate for the 2019 federal elections on the Ecolo list in Brussels where she was re-elected as a representative. In her second passage in the Chamber, she worked out an agreement on the capacity remuneration mechanism. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Tom Van Grieken

Tom Jozef Irène Van Grieken (born 7 October 1986) is a Belgian politician and author who has served as leader of Vlaams Belang since October 2014. Van Grieken was born in Antwerp and later moved to Mortsel where he served as a municipal councillor. His father is a retired police officer and his mother worked at a tobacconist store. He studied communications management at the Plantijn Hogeschool and worked in the advertising sector prior to entering politics full time. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Vincent Van Quickenborne

Vincent Paul Marie Van Quickenborne (born 1 August 1973) is a Belgian politician of the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats who has been serving as Minister of Justice in the government of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo since 2020. Van Quickenborne has been Senator from 1999 to 2003, a Secretary of State (2003–2008), Minister (2008–2011) responsible for the simplification of the administration and Deputy Prime Minister and Pensions Minister (2011–2012). On 17 October 2012, he resigned as minister to become mayor of Kortrijk for the term starting in February 2013. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Wilfried Martens

Wilfried Achiel Emma Martens (Dutch: [ˈʋɪlfrit ˈmɑrtə(n)s] ; 19 April 1936 – 9 October 2013) was a Belgian politician who served as prime minister of Belgium from 1979 to 1981 and from 1981 to 1992. A member of the Flemish Christian People's Party, during his premiership he oversaw the transformation of Belgium into a federal state. He was one of the founders of the European People's Party. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)

Willy Claes

Willem Werner Hubert 'Willy' Claes (Dutch: [ˈʋɪli klaːs]; born 24 November 1938) is a Belgian politician who served as the eighth Secretary General of NATO, from 1994 to 1995. Claes was forced to resign from his NATO position after he was found guilty of corruption, which was uncovered during the investigation into André Cools' death. Claes was a member of the Flemish Socialist Party. Claes was born in Hasselt, Belgium. He graduated in political and diplomatic sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)