List of members of the Senate of Belgium, 2010–2014
This is a list of members of the Belgian Senate during the 53rd legislature, after the elections of 2010. They are arranged alphabetically by type.
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Seat division
[edit]Party | Seats by type | Total | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Directly elected | Community | Coopted | |||
New Flemish Alliance | 9 | 3 | 2 | 14 | |
Socialist Party | 4 | 4 | 1 | 13 | |
Reformist Movement | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 | |
Christian Democratic and Flemish | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | |
Ecolo—Green! | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | |
Socialist Party–Different | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | |
Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
Ecolo | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
Flemish Interest | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
Humanist Democratic Centre | 2 | 2 | – | 4 | |
Green! | 1 | 1 | – | 2 | |
40 | 21 | 10 | 71 |
Bureau
[edit]President and Vice-Presidents
[edit]Office | Senator | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
President | Danny Pieters | N-VA | |
First Vice-president | Willy Demeyer | PS | |
Second Vice-president | Armand De Decker | MR | |
Third Vice-president | Helga Stevens | N-VA |
College of Quaestors
[edit]Quaestor | Party | |
---|---|---|
Wouter Beke | CD&V | |
Olga Zrihen | PS | |
Bert Anciaux | SP.A |
Floor leaders
[edit]Alphabetically
[edit]Senator | Party | |
---|---|---|
Bert Anciaux | SP.A | |
Wouter Beke | CD&V | |
Frank Boogaerts | N-VA | |
Yves Buysse ← Dewinter | Vlaams Belang | |
Jurgen Ceder | Vlaams Belang | |
Rik Daems | Open VLD | |
Sabine de Bethune | CD&V | |
Alexander De Croo | Open VLD | |
Patrick De Groote ← De Wever | N-VA | |
Inge Faes | N-VA | |
Piet De Bruyne ← Geybels | N-VA | |
Louis Ide | N-VA | |
Nele Lijnen | Open VLD | |
Lieve Maes | N-VA | |
Danny Pieters | N-VA | |
Freya Piryns | Groen! | |
Luc Sevenhans | N-VA | |
Elke Sleurs | N-VA | |
Dirk Sterckx | Open VLD | |
Marleen Temmerman | SP.A | |
Marianne Thyssen | CD&V | |
Rik Torfs[1] | CD&V | |
Johan Vande Lanotte | SP.A | |
Frank Vandenbroucke | SP.A | |
Anke Van dermeersch | Vlaams Belang | |
Marie Arena | PS | |
François Bellot | MR | |
Hassan Bousetta | PS | |
Armand De Decker | MR | |
Francis Delpérée | cdH | |
Willy Demeyer | PS | |
Gérard Deprez | MR | |
Paul Magnette | PS | |
Vanessa Matz | cdH | |
Jacky Morael | Ecolo | |
Philippe Moureau | PS | |
Claudia Niessen | Ecolo | |
Fatiha Saïdi | PS | |
Dominique Tilmans | MR | |
Fabienne Winckel | PS |
By type
[edit]Senators by Right
[edit]Senator | Party | Office entered | |
---|---|---|---|
Prince Philippe | No affiliation | June 21, 1994 | |
Princess Astrid | No affiliation | November 20, 1996 | |
Prince Laurent | No affiliation | May 31, 2000 |
Directly elected senators
[edit]They have taken the oath of office on July 6, 2010.
Dutch electoral college (25)[edit]
| French electoral college (15)[edit]
|
Community Senators
[edit]They have taken the oath of office on July 13, 2010.
Flemish Community (10)[edit]
| French-speaking Community (10)[edit]
|
German-speaking Community (1)
[edit]Senator | Party | |
---|---|---|
Louis Siquet | PS |
Coopted Senators
[edit]They have taken the oath of office on July 20, 2010.
Dutch language group (6)[edit]
| French language group (4)[edit]
|
By political party
[edit] Dutch-speaking[edit]New Flemish Alliance (14)[edit]
Christian Democratic & Flemish (7)[edit]
Socialist Party–Different (7)[edit]
Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats (6)[edit]
Flemish Interest (4 (−1))[edit]
Green (2)[edit]
Independent (1)[edit]
| French-speaking[edit]Socialist Party (12/13)[edit]
German speaking:
Reformist Movement (8)[edit]
Ecolo (5)[edit]
Humanist Democratic Centre (4)[edit]
|
Changed during the legislation
[edit]Senators who chose not to sit
[edit]Name | Party | Type | Date | Replacement | Notes | |
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Bart De Wever | N-VA | Directly elected senator | 6 July 2010 | Patrick De Groote | Stayed member of the Flemish Parliament (became community senator later on) | |
Filip Dewinter | VB | Directly elected senator | 6 July 2010 | Yves Buysse | Stayed member of the Flemish Parliament (became community senator later on) | |
Louis Michel | MR | Directly elected senator | 6 July 2010 | Gérard Deprez | Stayed member of the European Parliament | |
Helga Stevens | N-VA | Directly elected senator | 6 July 2010 | Frank Boogaerts | Stayed member of the Flemish Parliament (became community senator later on) | |
Marianne Thyssen | CD&V | Directly elected senator | 6 July 2010 | Dirk Claes | Stayed member of the European Parliament |
Senators who resigned
[edit]Name | Party | Type | Date | Replacement | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kim Geybels | N-VA | Directly elected senator | 31 August 2010 | Piet De Bruyn | Because of personal reasons | |
Philippe Muyters | N-VA | Directly elected senator | 9 July 2010 | Luc Sevenhans | Stayed Flemish minister in Peeters II | |
Frank Vandenbroucke | SP.A | Directly elected senator | 1 October 2011 | Fauzaya Talhaoui | ||
Paul Magnette | PS | Directly elected senator | 5 December 2011 | Christie Morreale | Became federal minister in Di Rupo I | |
Güler Turan | SP.A | Community senator | 22 December 2011 | Fatma Pehlivan | ||
Marleen Temmerman | SP.A | Directly elected senator | 18 October 2012 | Leona Detiège | Became department head of WHO | |
Peter Van Rompuy | CD&V | Coopted senator | December 2012 | Etienne Schouppe | Became member of the Flemish Parliament | |
Bart Tommelein | Open VLD | Community senator | January 2013 | Jean-Jacques De Gucht | Became alderman in Ostend | |
Liesbeth Homans | N-VA | Community senator | January 2013 | Vandaele or Jans | Became alderwoman in Antwerp | |
Bart De Wever | N-VA | Community senator | January 2013 | Vandaele or Jans | Became mayor of Antwerp |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Resigned in 2013. Replaced by Els Van Hoof by 28 March 2013.
Sources
[edit]- "Huidige senatoren (alfabetisch)" (in Dutch). The Belgian Senate. Retrieved 2008-02-22.
- "Sénateurs actuels (alphabétique)" (in French). The Belgian Senate. Retrieved 2008-02-22.
- "Het Bureau" (in Dutch). The Belgian Senate. Retrieved 2008-02-22.
- "Le Bureau" (in French). The Belgian Senate. Retrieved 2008-02-22.