Laurette Onkelinx

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Laurette Onkelinx (2006)

Laurette Onkelinx (born October 2, 1958 in Ougrée ) is a Belgian politician of the Parti Socialiste (PS). She has held various ministerial offices since 1992 and was most recently Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Social Affairs and Health in the Di Rupo government from 2011 to 2014 .

Life

Onkelinx was born in Ougrée as one of six children of the former PS MP and Mayor of Seraing Gaston Onkelinx and Germaine Ali Bakir. Her mother is an Algerian Berber from Kabylia . Her father, a native Flemish, had moved to the Walloon part of Belgium. After studying law at the University of Liège , she worked as a lawyer for ten years and was a lecturer in social law.

In 1987 Onkelinx was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Deputies for the Liege district. There she presided over the Justice Commission and was Vice-President of Parliament. From 1992 to 1993 she was Minister for Social Integration, Public Health and Environmental Protection in the Dehaene I government . In 1993 she was appointed Prime Minister of the French Community and held this position until 1999. Your tenure at the time of the budget crisis was marked by long social conflicts with the teachers' unions. Onkelinx was a Senator in the Belgian Senate from May 21, 1995 to June 21, 1995 , a member of the Walloon Council from June 13, 1999 to July 12, and a member of the Council of the French Community from July 6, 1999 to July 12, 1999 .

From 1999 to 2003 she was Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Labor and Equal Opportunities in the Verhofstadt I government and from 2003 to 2007 Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Justice in the Verhofstadt II government . In the municipal elections in Schaerbeek in 2006 , she lost with 5083 votes against Bernard Clerfayt with 12654 votes. Since December 21, 2007, she has been Minister for Social Affairs and Health in the Verhofstadt III , Leterme I , Van Rompuy , Leterme II and Di Rupo governments . Since the Leterme I government , she has also been deputy prime minister again.

Onkelinx has been President of Beliris, a cooperation agreement between the Belgian federal state and the Brussels-Capital Region, since July 1999. This agreement provides for an annual budget to promote the national and international role of Brussels through infrastructure measures.

An employment plan for young people is also based on their initiative: "Rosetta", named after the socially critical film by the Dardenne brothers .

After the Socialists' defeat in the 2014 parliamentary elections and the formation of a government under Prime Minister Charles Michel , the Socialists found themselves in the opposition for the first time since 1988. Laurette Onkelinx took over the chairmanship of the parliamentary group and became the leader of the opposition. She coined the term Kamikaze government for the Michel government. As a result of the affair surrounding the Brussels homeless support organization Samusocial , she came under pressure in the summer of 2017, as she defended her political friend and then Brussels' mayor Yvan Mayeur for a long time.

On September 13, 2017, she surprisingly announced that she wanted to withdraw completely from politics at the latest after the next parliamentary elections in 2019 .

family

Onkelinx is divorced from her first husband, Abbès Guenned , who became a Belgian citizen through marriage to her, shortly after the competent authorities in Morocco obtained an arrest warrant for drug dealing in 1996. On July 31, 1997, Guenned was caught at Brussels-Zaventem Airport with a forged diplomatic passport. In order to save inconvenience to the incumbent Prime Minister Onkelinx, the divorce took place in a month. A quicker divorce is unknown in Belgian legal history. Guenned was arrested in Turkey for the same offenses and was not deported to Morocco due to pressure from the Belgian government, but released to Belgium.

In 1998 Onkelinx married the lawyer and constitutional lawyer Marc Uyttendaele . Best man was her ex-husband Abbès Guenned. Since then, her first husband has been working as an advisor to the staff, the cabinet of Minister Onkelinx, and is a member of the Central Council of Muslims in Belgium.

Onkelinx has three children and currently lives officially in Schaerbeek in the Brussels-Capital Region , in reality she lives in Lasne . On November 8, 2009, she had the current issue of the satirical magazine Père Ubu confiscated because the authors made fun of the arrest of their daughter and Guenned for a drug crime.

criticism

In July 2006, Onkelinx came under public criticism when the notorious criminal Murat Kaplan failed to return home from the weekend release she had approved. In August 2006 she was charged with allowing 28 inmates to escape from Dendermonde prison . In September 2006 it was said that the criminal Victor Hoxha had returned to Belgium , although he had been expelled at the beginning of the year, with the condition not to enter Belgium for ten years. Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt ( VLD ) asked her not to release any prisoners guilty of serious crimes before January 1, 2007, which she refused. CD&V and Vlaams Belang then demanded their resignation.

On September 23, 2006 it became known that another criminal had not returned from his day exit. Tony Van Parys of the CD&V called it “incomprehensible that someone like [the intended criminal] should get an exit at all.” The cabinet crisis in the following week was resolved when the VLD and the Parti Socialiste agreed on only prisoners for the next few months to release their victims (or their relatives) early with the consent.

In October 2007, she shocked the public with a racist statement by calling Flemings the dry rot which decomposes the Belgian home.

On January 30, 2011, she showed her interlocutor Etienne Schouppe from CD&V the middle finger of her right hand on the RTBF broadcast Mise au point .

Overview of political offices

  • 1987–1995: Member of the Chamber of Deputies , the Council of the Walloon Region and the Council of the French Community (partially prevented)
  • 1992–1993: Minister for Public Health, Environment and Social Integration in the Dehaene I government
  • 1993: Prime Minister of the Government of the French Community, responsible for social affairs, health and tourism
  • 1994–1995: Prime Minister of the Government of the French Community, in charge of public office, childhood and health promotion
  • 1995–1999: Prime Minister of the Government of the French Community, responsible for education, media, youth welfare, childhood and health promotion
  • 1995-1999: Senator
  • 1995–2000: Member of the Seraing municipal council
  • 1999–2003: Member of the Parliament of the Walloon Region and the Parliament of the French Community (partially prevented)
  • 1999–2003: Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Employment in the Verhofstadt I government
  • 2003 - today : Member of the Chamber of Deputies (partially prevented)
  • 2003–2007: Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Justice in the Verhofstadt II government
  • 2006 - today : Member of the local council in Schaerbeek / Schaarbeek
  • 2007–2008: Minister for Social Affairs and Health in the Verhofstadt III government
  • 2008–2014: Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Social Affairs and Health in the Leterme I , Van Rompuy , Leterme II and Di Rupo governments

Web links

Commons : Laurette Onkelinx  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La Libre: Laurette Onkelinx annonce son départ de la vie politique: "J'ai envie d'autre chose" La Libre (Belgique) online on September 13, 2017, accessed on September 14, 2017 at 11:10 pm
  2. ↑ Hurriet
  3. ↑ Milliyet
  4. ↑ http://www.dhnet.be/infos/belgique/article/147575/la-fin-du-chantier-de-lasne.html
  5. ↑ http://www.lalibre.be/culture/mediastele/article/541422/pere-ubu-retire-de-la-vente-a-la-demande-de-l-ex-mari-d-onkelinx.html
  6. ^ Justice Minister Under Fire over Top Gangster's Escape , Expatica. July 18, 2006. 
  7. ^ Pressure mounts on minister over prison break , Expatica. August 22, 2006. 
  8. ↑ Gangster keen for 'expat life' in Belgium , Expatica. September 18, 2006. 
  9. ^ Regeringscrisis nabij? , De Standaard . September 20, 2006. 
  10. ↑ Laurette en de Vlaamse huiszwam , LVB.net. October 17, 2007. 
  11. ↑ http://www.standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=DMF20110130_069
personal data
SURNAME Onkelinx, Laurette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian socialist politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Ougrée