Nelly Maes

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Nelly Maes
Sinaai, Belgium
Nationality	Belgian
Occupation	Politician

Nelly Maes (born 25 February 1941) is a Belgian social liberal politician from the Flanders region.

She began her professional career as a

.

In 1985, she returned to her seat in the Belgian Chamber of People's Representatives, leaving there in 1991, again to continue in the Belgian Senate. But in 1995, she changed places and became a member of the newly formed Flemish Parliament until 1998, when elected into the European Parliament for the European Free Alliance.

In 2001, the Volksunie split, after which Maes, who was very much against the split, joined

put their own five favourable candidates on the highest places on the mutual election list for the European elections in 2004, Maes being sixth. Only five members were elected, so Maes is without a parlementary seat nowadays.

However, she was appointed as the president of the European Free Alliance, and as president of the Flemish Peace Institute [nl], an organisation closely related to the Flemish Parliament.

Maes always stood firm for regional culturalism, regional languages, the environment, and women's liberation, the source of being called "Red Nelly".^[1]

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