François Bellot

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François Bellot (born February 8, 1954 in Jemelle ) is a Belgian politician of the Mouvement Réformateur (MR). Bellot has been a parliamentarian for many years and has been Federal Minister for Mobility in the Wilmès government since the resignation of Jacqueline Galant (MR) . At the local level, he has been the Mayor of Rochefort since 1995 .

Life

François Bellot is a civil engineer ( ULg ), commercial engineer ( UCL ), licentiate in political science (UCL) and a graduate of the French management academy École nationale d'administration (ENA, Paris ). He then worked at the Ministry of Transport in the Walloon Region .

Bellot made his entry into politics in 1982 on the advice of Jean Gol (PRL). First he was a member of the Public Welfare Council in Rochefort . In 1995 he took over the office of mayor of the same municipality, which he still holds today , with the exception of an interlude from 1998 to 2001 when he was a member of the provincial college in the province of Namur .

In 2000 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies before moving to the Senator in 2010 . There he sat before the special committee to investigate the railway accident at Buizingen . In the regional elections on May 25, 2014, he was finally elected to the Walloon Parliament and the Parliament of the French Community .

When, after the terrorist attacks in Brussels in March 2016, it became known that the European Commission had already pointed out security gaps in the area of Brussels-Zaventem Airport in 2011 and 2015 , and the Federal Mobility Minister Jacqueline Galant (MR) then resigned from Prime Minister Charles Michel (MR), François Bellot was sworn in as her successor on April 18, 2016.

Overview of political offices

  • 1982 - 1988: Member of the Public Welfare Council in Rochefort
  • 1989 - today : Member of the Rochefort Municipal Council
  • 1995-1998: Mayor of Rochefort
  • 1995 - 2001: Member of the Namur Province Council
  • 1998: First magistrate in Rochefort
  • 1998 - 2001: Member of the Provincial College (permanent deputation) in Namur
  • 2000 - 2010: Member of the Federal Chamber of Deputies
  • 2001 - today : Mayor of Rochefort (partially prevented)
  • 2010-2014: Senator
  • 2014 - today : Member of the Walloon Parliament and the Parliament of the French Community (partially prevented)
  • 2016 - today : Federal Minister for Mobility, in charge of Belgocontrol and the NMBS / SNCB , continuously from the Michel government to the Wilmès government

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Levif.be: Qui est François Bellot, nouveau ministre des Transports et de la Mobilité? (April 17, 2016) (French).
  2. ↑ RTBF.be: François Bellot succède à Jacqueline Galant comme ministre de la Mobilité et des Transports (April 17, 2016) (French).
personal data
SURNAME Bellot, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian politician of the Mouvement Réformateur (MR)
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Jemelle