Willy Borsus

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Willy Borsus (born April 4, 1962 in Pessoux near Ciney ) is a Belgian politician of the Mouvement Réformateur party (MR). He is Prime Minister of Wallonia . Before that, he was Federal Minister for SMEs, the Self-Employed, SMEs, Agriculture and Social Integration in the Michel government . Borsus has been a member of the Walloon Parliament and the Parliament of the French Community since 2004 . From 1994 to 2014 he was mayor of Somme-Leuze .

Life

Willy Borsus, son of a farmer, first began a university degree in law (IESN in Namur ) and completed further training in European social law. He then became a parliamentary assistant to Charles Cornet d'Elzius (PRL, now MR).

Borsus initially entered active politics at the local level. In 1988 he was elected to the local council of Somme-Leuze, and in 1994 he became mayor there. In the same year he was also elected to the Provincial Council of Namur.

In 2001, Borsus accepted a position as a consultant in the cabinet of the then Walloon Minister for Spatial Planning, Michel Foret (MR), until he was elected to the Walloon Parliament in 2004. There he took over the parliamentary group chairmanship of the opposition MR in 2009. Within MR, Borsus belonged to the “Renaissance Group” that, after the federal elections of 2009, in which MR suffered heavy losses, demanded the resignation of the then Vice Prime Minister, Finance Minister and MR Chairman Didier Reynders . He has been vice chairman of MR ever since.

When, after the federal elections on May 25, 2014, MR became the only French-speaking party to join the government under Prime Minister Charles Michel (MR), Borsus took over the office of Minister for SMEs, the self-employed, SMEs, agriculture and social integration. In return, he gave up his local offices.

In June 2017, the cdH in the Wallonia region withdrew its trust in the ruling PS- cdH coalition under Prime Minister Paul Magnette (PS); together with MR, it applied for a constructive vote of no confidence in the formation of a new MR-cdH government (“ Blue Orange ”). In this government, Borsus finally became Prime Minister on July 28, 2017. He left his ministerial office in the federal government to Denis Ducarme (MR).

Overview of the political offices

  • 1988 - 2014: Member of the Somme-Leuze Municipal Council
  • 1994 - 2014: Mayor of Somme-Leuze
  • 1994 - 2004: Member of the Namur Province Council
  • 2004 - today : Member of the Walloon Parliament and the Parliament of the French Community (partially prevented)
  • 2014 - 2017: Federal Minister for SMEs, Self-Employed, SMEs, Agriculture and Social Inclusion in the Michel government
  • 2017 - today : Prime Minister of Wallonia

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lalibre.be: Borsus, vice-président du MR. Un accord subtil et ambigu (October 27, 2009) (French).
  2. ↑ Lesoir.be: Wallon governorate: la motion de méfiance a été déposée (July 26, 2017) (French).
  3. ↑ Lalibre.be: Denis Ducarme remplace Willy Borsus au fédéral, Isabelle Galant devient députée à la Chambre (26 July 2017) (French).
personal data
SURNAME Borsus, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian politician of the Mouvement Réformateur (MR)
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Pessoux at Ciney