Guy Vanhengel

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Guy Vanhengel (2010)

Guy Vanhengel (born June 10, 1958 in Brussels ) is a Belgian politician of the Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democrats (Open VLD). Vanhengel has been Finance and Budget Minister in the Brussels Capital Region for many years (2000 to 2009 and from 2011 to today). From 2009 to 2011 he was Deputy Prime Minister and Budget Minister in the Leterme II government at the federal level . At the local level, he has been a member of the Evere Town Council since 1989 .

Life

Guy Vanhengel began his professional career in 1979 as a teacher at the Kakelbontschool in Brussels. At the same time, he worked as information officer for Radio Contact (1979 to 1982) and as an employee of the Flemish daily newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws (HLN) (1979 to 1988). After completing his military service in 1982, Vanhengel's political career began as press spokesman for Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck (PVV), who was then State Secretary for the Brussels-Capital Region. A few years later he became press spokesman for the PVV under the chairmanship of Guy Verhofstadt (1984 to 1985) and of Guy Verhofstadt himself when he was Deputy Prime Minister in the Martens VI and Martens VII governments (1985 to 1988). In addition to a number of other mandates, Guy Vanhengel took on the role of Director of the Flemish Tourism Agency ( Toerisme Vlaanderen ) in 1988 , but worked until 1989 as communications officer in the cabinet of Patrick Dewael (PVV), then Minister of Culture of the Flemish Government .

Guy Vanhengel himself became a member of the local council in Evere in 1989 as press spokesman for the PVV and later VLD parliamentary groups in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate . He held this position until 1995, the year in which he was elected as a member of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region. There he was Minister for Finance and Budget from 2000 to 2009. From 2003 to 2004 he also joined the Flemish government under Prime Minister Dewael after Bert Anciaux ( VU ) resigned due to internal party disputes. The year 2009 brought numerous changes for Vanhengel. Since the then Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht (Open VLD) to the European Commission was promoted to where Louis Michel ( MR ) to replace, Guy Vanhengel was in the federal government Herman Van Rompuy ( CD & V promoted as Deputy Prime Minister and Budget Minister).

He kept the same office in the successor government Leterme II under Yves Leterme (CD&V). When the Open VLD, chaired by Alexander De Croo, decided in April 2010 after unsuccessful negotiations about the split in the Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde constituency (BHV) to leave the federal government and thus triggered early elections, in which the party lost numerous votes , Vanhengel, who has since become one of the tenors of the Open VLD, was one of the critics of the party's approach.

When the Leterme government was replaced in 2011 by the new government under Elio Di Rupo ( PS ), Guy Vanhengel left the federal level to become budget and finance minister in the Brussels region again. He continues to hold this office in the current government under Prime Minister Rudi Vervoort (PS) after the regional elections on May 25, 2014 .

Overview of political offices

  • 1983 - 1989: Member of the ÖSHZ council in Evere
  • 1989 - today : Member of the Evere Municipal Council
  • 1995 - 2010: Member of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region
  • 1999 - 2000: Chairman of the Council of the Flemish Community Commission (VGC)
  • 2000-2004: Minister for Finance, Budget, Civil Service and External Relations for the Brussels-Capital Region; responsible for teaching, training and the budget in the VGC; responsible for personal assistance and the public service in the joint joint commission
  • 2002 - 2003: Flemish Minister for Sport and Capital Affairs
  • 2004 - 2009: Minister of Finance, Budget, External Relations and IT for the Brussels-Capital Region; responsible for teaching and the budget in the VGC; responsible for health and the budget in the joint community commission
  • 2009 - 2011: Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for the Budget in the Van Rompuy and Leterme II governments
  • 2011-2014: Minister of the Brussels-Capital Region for Finance, Budget, Civil Service and External Relations
  • 2010 - 2014: Member of the Federal Chamber of Deputies
  • 2014 - today : Member of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region
  • 2014 - present : Minister for Finance, Budget, External Relations and Development Cooperation for the Brussels-Capital Region

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nieuwsblad.be: Ruzie dreigt bij Open VLD (June 15, 2010) (ndl.)
personal data
SURNAME Vanhengel, Guy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels