Hugo Coveliers

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Hugo Coveliers
Senator
In office
2003 – June 2011
Personal details
Born (1947-02-21) 21 February 1947 (age 77)
Open VLD (1993–2005)
VLOTT (2005–2012)
Vlaams Belang (2012-)
ResidenceAntwerp
Websitewww.coveliers.be

Hugo F.V. Coveliers (born 21 February 1947) is a retired

Belgian Senate.[1] He was a parliamentary chairman for the VLD in both chambers, from 1999 to 2003.[2]

Biography

Coveliers was born in

Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD) in 1992,[5] together with some other frustrated party members. Within the VLD, he was part of the conservative wing, and he was open to the idea of working with the Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) and its precursor Vlaams Blok
(Flemish Bloc), something the VLD's leadership did not support.

In 2004, Coveliers was co-founder of the Antwerp section of the conservative-libertarian organization Nova Civitas and became inspired and influenced by Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn. At that time he also feuded openly with VLD party chairman Karel De Gucht.[6] This resulted in Coveliers being ejected from the party on 8 February 2005, and starting his own political party VLOTT in the fall of 2005, based on Fortuyn's ideas. This party is willing to work together with the Vlaams Belang (VB) and formed a cartel with it for the Antwerp city elections in October 2006.

After the dismissal of

2007 general election
. Coveliers has since became a member of VB.

Coveliers withdrew from active politics early 2012.[7][8]

Books by Coveliers

  • Securitas Belgica – de rijkswacht is overbodig, Hadewijch, 1989.
  • Twee jaar Bendecommissie, een schimmengevecht, on the
    Nijvel gang
    investigation, Hadewijch, 1992.

Notes

  1. Belgian Senate
    . Retrieved 10 June 2009.
  2. ^ "Hugo Coveliers – Vlaams Belang". Belgian Senate. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  3. ISBN 9789038208930
    . Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  4. ^ Biografie Hugo Coveliers in the Nieuwe Encyclopedie van de Vlaamse Beweging.
  5. ^ Pascal Delwit, La vie politique en Belgique de 1830 à nos jours, Bruxelles, Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 2010, p. 241
  6. ^ "Karel De Gucht wil Hugo Coveliers uit VLD" (in Dutch). Het Belang van Limburg. 2 December 2004. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  7. ^ (in Dutch) Hugo Coveliers stopt met de actieve politiek, De Standaard (20 January 2012)
  8. ^ (in Dutch) Hugo Coveliers is niet langer voorzitter van Vlott, De Standaard (3 December 2010)
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