Gaëtan Van Goidsenhoven

Gaëtan Van Goidsenhoven
Mayor of Anderlecht
In office
2007–2012
Member of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region
Incumbent
Assumed office
June 7, 2009
Personal details
Born (1973-10-02) October 2, 1973 (age 51)
Uccle, Belgium
Political partyReformist Movement
Alma materUniversité libre de Bruxelles
OccupationPolitician

Gaëtan Van Goidsenhoven (born October 2, 1973, in Uccle, Belgium) is a Belgian francophone politician and a member of the MR (Mouvement Réformateur).

He served as the Mayor of Anderlecht from 2007 to 2012 and is currently a member of the Brussels Parliament, a representative in the French Community Parliament, and the president of the MR group in the Senate.

Biography

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Gaëtan Van Goidsenhoven was born in Uccle on October 2, 1973. He spent his childhood and completed his education in Anderlecht.[1]

In 1997, he graduated with a degree in history from the Université Libre de Bruxelles.[1]

Following the start of his career as a historian at the Francophone Liberal Archives, he passed a recruitment exam in 2005 for the French Community. This led to his employment as a civil servant in the Cultural Heritage Service.[1]

Administrator of the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals Veeweyde [fr], he became its president in December 2018.[2] In 2022, Gaëtan Van Goidsenhoven and his party opposed ritual slaughter [fr] without stunning in order to improve animal welfare. This stance led to a citizen's call to refrain from voting for the MR (Mouvement Réformateur) in Anderlecht.[3][4]

Political career

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Gaëtan Van Goidsenhoven began his political involvement in 1995 alongside Jacques Simonet. He followed Simonet through various political roles before becoming the President of the CPAS (Public Centre for Social Welfare) of Anderlecht in 2007.[5]

In 2007, he was called upon to assume the mayoralty of Anderlecht following the death of Jacques Simonet.[6] Consequently, he became the youngest mayor of the Brussels-Capital Region.[7] He held this position until December 2012.[5]

He became a member of the Brussels-Capital Region Parliament on June 7, 2009.[8]

On December 3, 2012, he took an oath for his role as Deputy Mayor, responsible for Territorial Development, Urban Planning, and Sustainable Development.[9] These responsibilities became his specialties, also at the regional level.[10]

Following the municipal elections in October 2018, despite achieving the highest number of preferential votes in Anderlecht,[11] the MR was relegated to the opposition.[12]

Gaëtan Van Goidsenhoven was re-elected as a Brussels Parliament member in the regional elections on May 26, 2019.[13]

He took the oath as a Senator on July 4, 2019, and was appointed as the MR group leader in the Senate on October 8 of the same year.[14]

Gaëtan Van Goidsenhoven is a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of La Francophonie.[15]

Gaëtan Van Goidsenhoven is also the president of the Space Platform of the Belgian Senate. He has initiated legislation aimed at reducing space pollution and regulating the exploitation of resources in space, among other objectives.[16]

Since September 2016, he has been a member of the Parliament of the Walloon-Brussels Federation.[17]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Qui suis-je ? | Gaëtan Van Goidsenhoven. Député bruxellois, Sénateur et chef du groupe MR au Sénat, Chef de groupe à Anderlecht" (in French). Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  2. ^ MdK (2023-11-29). "Anderlecht : Gaëtan Van Goidsenhoven devient président de Veeweyde". DHnet (in French). Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  3. ^ "Après des débats houleux, l'abattage pourra continuer à se faire sans étourdissement: le gouvernement bruxellois est-il en danger après ce vote?". RTL Info (in French). 2022-06-19. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  4. ^ "Abattage rituel: un appel à ne plus voter pour le MR à Anderlecht (photo)! - Édition digitale de Bruxelles". 2022-06-07. Archived from the original on 2022-06-07. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  5. ^ a b "Parlement francophone bruxellois. Gaëtan Van Goidsenhoven". parlementfrancophone.brussels. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  6. ^ Methode (2023-11-30). "Anderlecht a son nouveau maïeur". La Libre.be (in French). Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  7. ^ "Gaetan Van Goidsenhoven désigné bourgmestre d'Anderlecht". RTL Info (in French). 2007-07-09. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  8. ^ "Gaëtan Van Goidsenhoven". Parlement Bruxellois (in French). Archived from the original on 2022-01-28. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  9. ^ "Bruxelles: l'après-élection n'est pas un long fleuve tranquille". RTBF (in French). Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  10. ^ Goidsenhoven, Gaetan Van (2019-11-24). "Bruxelles et les risques d'une densification non-maîtrisée". Le Vif (in French). Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  11. ^ Rédaction (2023-12-01). "Communales : découvrez les 19 bourgmestres en Région bruxelloise". La Libre.be (in French). Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  12. ^ "Gaëtan Van Goidsenhoven "seul contre tous"". Le Soir (in French). 2018-10-15. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  13. ^ "Elections 2019: voici les 89 élus du Parlement bruxellois". Le Soir (in French). 2019-05-27. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  14. ^ "Sénat de Belgique". www.senate.be. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  15. ^ "Belgique/Communauté française/Wallonie-Bruxelles |" (in French). Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  16. ^ Santos, Gauvain Dos (2023-12-01). "Gaëtan Van Goidsenhoven: "Il ne faut pas reproduire dans l'espace la pollution que l'on connaît sur terre"". DHnet (in French). Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  17. ^ "Gaëtan Van Goidsenhoven". PFWB (in French). 1973-10-02. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
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