Olivier Chastel

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Olivier Chastel (2011)

Olivier Chastel (born November 22, 1964 in Liège ) is a Belgian politician of the Mouvement Réformateur (MR). He gained fame as a local opposition politician in Charleroi when he uncovered the facts that sparked the so-called "Carolorégienne affair" and ultimately overthrew the Walloon Prime Minister Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe ( PS ). Until October 2014, Chastel was acting federal minister for budget and administrative simplification in the Di Rupo government . He has been a member of the European Parliament since the 2019 European elections .

Life

Olivier Chastel is a trained pharmacist ( Université libre de Bruxelles , 1987). After a few years in research, he moved to a private pharmaceutical company.

His political career began in 1993 when Chastel was elected to the Charleroi municipal council. He made the leap into the Walloon Parliament and the Parliament of the French Community in 1998 as a replacement candidate for the resigned Etienne Knoops ( PRL ). In 1999 he was elected to the federal Chamber of Deputies , of which he was Vice-President from 2003. In 2004 Chastel was briefly Minister of Culture of the French Community, where he replaced the resigned Daniel Ducarme (MR).

However, Oliver Chastel only became famous throughout Belgium in 2005 when he published an expert report on the embezzlement of public funds in the social real estate company La Carolorégienne . This sparked the “ Carolorégienne Affair ”, which forced numerous figures from the PS majority, including the mayor on duty Charles Van Gompel and the Walloon Prime Minister Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe , to resign. After the local elections of 2006, in which the PS lost its absolute majority in Charleroi and had to enter into a coalition with the cdH and MR, Chastel became the city's first alderman.

He made the leap into the federal government as federal state secretary for the preparation of the European presidency in the Leterme I government under Yves Leterme ( CD&V ). In 2011, Chastel briefly became Minister for Development Cooperation after Charles Michel (MR) stepped down to take over the party chairmanship.

From 2011 to 2014, Olivier Chastel was federal budget minister in the Di Rupo government under Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo (PS). In the 2014 election he won another seat in the Chamber of Deputies.

In the 2019 European elections , Olivier Chastel ran as the top candidate for the Mouvement Réformateur . The party lost significantly in votes and won only two instead of the previous three seats. Chastel won a mandate alongside Frédérique Ries. Both joined the Renew Europe group. For his group, Chastel is a member of the Committee on Budgets , of which he was also elected Vice-Chair, and of the Committee on Budgetary Control . He is also a deputy member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs .

Overview of political offices

Web links

Commons : Olivier Chastel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Une list committed to thunder un nouvel élan à l'Europe. Mouvement Réformateur, March 29, 2019, accessed on July 19, 2019 (French).
  2. ↑ Home | Olivier CHASTEL | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Chastel, Olivier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian politician (MR), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Liege