Wim Van der Donckt
Wim Van der Donckt (born Oudenaarde, June 6, 1965) is a Belgian-Flemish lawyer and politician for the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) party.
Biography
Van der Donckt graduated with a law degree from KU Leuven. In 1995 he co-founded a law firm in Lier and in 2000 he became a deputy judge at the Mechelen Police Court. From 2002 to 2016 he was a member of the Council of the Order of the Bar of Mechelen, of which he was secretary, and from 2016 to 2017 he was also a member of the High Council of Justice (Belgium).[1]
From 2015 to 2017, he was chairman of the N-VA branch of the district of
2014 Belgian federal elections, he stood in third place on N-VA Chamber list for the province of Antwerp. In March 2017, he became a member of the Chamber of Representatives replacing Zuhal Demir, who became State Secretary in the Michel I Government.[3] In 2019, he returned to the Chamber to replace Jan Jambon who resigned to become Minister-President of Flanders.[4]
References
- ^ Fiche Wim van der Donckt, advocatenkantoor-mattijs.be.
- ^ Fiche Wim van der Donckt, n-va.be. Archived 2017-04-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Fiche Van der Donckt, dekamer.be.
- ^ Bonheidenaars Vaganée en Van der Donckt op kieslijsten N-VA, Het Laatste Nieuws, 28 januari 2019.
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