Laurette Onkelinx
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Laurette Onkelinx | |
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Minister of Social Affairs and Health | |
In office 21 December 2007 – 11 October 2014 | |
Prime Minister | Guy Verhofstadt Yves Leterme Herman Van Rompuy Yves Leterme Elio Di Rupo |
Preceded by | Rudy Demotte |
Succeeded by | Maggie De Block |
Minister of Justice | |
In office 11 July 2003 – 21 December 2007 | |
Prime Minister | Guy Verhofstadt |
Preceded by | Marc Verwilghen |
Succeeded by | Jo Vandeurzen |
Minister of Labour and Transport | |
In office 5 May 2003 – 11 July 2003 | |
Prime Minister | Guy Verhofstadt |
Preceded by | Herself (Labour) Isabelle Durant (Transport) |
Succeeded by | Peter Vanvelthoven (Labour) Renaat Landuyt (Transport) |
Minister of Labour | |
In office 13 July 1999 – 5 May 2003 | |
Prime Minister | Guy Verhofstadt |
Preceded by | Miet Smet |
Succeeded by | Herself (Labour and Transport) |
Minister-President of the French Community | |
In office 6 May 1993 – 13 July 1999 | |
Preceded by | Bernard Anselme |
Succeeded by | Hervé Hasquin |
Minister of Social Integration, Public Health and Environment | |
In office 7 March 1992 – 6 May 1993 | |
Prime Minister | Jean-Luc Dehaene |
Preceded by | Philippe Busquin |
Succeeded by | Jacques Santkin |
Personal details | |
Born | Socialist Party | 2 October 1958
Spouse(s) | Abbès Guenned (Divorced) Marc Uyttendaele |
Education | University of Liège |
Laurette A. J. Onkelinx (born 2 October 1958) is a Belgian politician from the Francophone
Biography
Born in
Her father, Gaston Onkelinx, originally a Dutch-speaking migrant from Flemish Limburg to francophone Wallonia, has long been mayor of Seraing (near Liège) and member of the House of Representatives (1974–1987). Her grandfather, Maurice Onkelinx, was alderman and mayor of Jeuk in Limburg and lost his civil rights for some years after the Second World War. Her older brother, Alain Onkelinx, has been a member of the Regional Parliament of Wallonia since September 2005. She speaks French and Dutch.
Controversy
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When Turkish terrorist
In July 2006, Onkelinx came under heavy political fire again when one of Belgian's most notorious criminals,
CD&V and Vlaams Belang again called for the resignation of the minister, but it was unknown how far the VLD would go in supporting the minister (and accordingly, the then current
On 6 October, two days before the Belgian municipal elections, Laurette Onkelinx was hit with a pie at an election event in Schaerbeek. The perpetrator was Benito Franscesconi, a 78-year-old man, who has a history of "civil disobedience." Franscesconi has made himself a civil party to many court cases in which he had no direct interest.
First married to Abbès Guenned, a Belgian of Moroccan descent, Onkelinx divorced him in 1997–1998;
In 2009, Onkelinx criticized Pope
In 2014, it was revealed that her Ministry had hired the firm of her own husband, Marc Uyttendaele , as a legal consultant, at a cost of 245,000 euros.[6]
On 13 September 2017, Onkelincx announced she would not be a candidate for the 2019 elections.[7]
Political career
First elected to the Belgian House of Representatives in 1988, she held several ministerial posts without any interruption from 1992 until 2014:
- Minister of Social Integration, Public Health and Environment (1992–1993)
- Minister-President and Minister of the Civil Service, Child Healthcare and Promotion of Health in the French Community (1993–1995)
- Minister-President and Minister of Education, Media, Youth, Child Healthcare and Promotion of Health in the French Community (1995–1999)
- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labour (1999–2003)
- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labour and Transport (2003)
- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice (July 2003 – December 2007)
- Minister of Social Affairs and Public Health (December 2007 – October 2014)
References and sources
- ^ "20 March 2008 – Royal Orders. Government – Dismissals – Appointments" (PDF) (in Dutch and French). The Belgian Official Journal. 21 March 2008. pp. 3–4. Retrieved 30 March 2008.
- ^ (Dutch) Belga, "Biografie Laurette Onkelinx (PS)". Archived from the original on 23 December 2007. Retrieved 1 June 2016., De Morgen, 20 December 2007
- ^ "Belçika ile bakan kocası krizi" (in Turkish). Hürriyet. 26 July 1998. Retrieved 26 July 2010. Arrest of husband published in Turkish daily Hurriet
- ^ Belçikalı Bakan eşi krize yol açtı, Milliyet, 15 August 1998
- ^ [1] Archived 22 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Belga. "Uyttendaele a facturé 860 000 euros au Fédéral". lalibre.be.
- ^ "Keihard in onderhandelingen, loyaal in het compromis". De Tijd (in Dutch). 13 September 2017. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
External links
Media related to Laurette Onkelinx at Wikimedia Commons