André Smets
André Smets (5 July 1943 – 30 December 2019) was a Belgian politician, who served as Mayor of Herve from 1985 to 2010. He also sat in the Chamber of Representatives for the Verviers constituency from 1999 to 2003. As a member of parliament he mainly focused on traffic, infrastructure and government-owned companies.[1]
In 1970 he was elected to Herve as a municipal councillor for the then PSC (precursor of the current
Centre démocrate humaniste
) and from 1977 to 1985 as an alderman. In 1985 he became mayor of the municipality, which he remained until leaving politics at the end of 2010.
Smets was a teacher by profession and from 1975 to 1999 he was head of the Institut Saint-Joseph in Herve.
References
- ^ "André Smets, ex-bourgmestre de Herve, est décédé durant la nuit". sudinfo.be (in French). 30 December 2019.
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