Bart Laeremans
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Bart Laeremans is since 21 May 1995 member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for the Vlaams Belang
Vlaams Belang
Vlaams Belang is a Belgian far-right political party in the Flemish Region and Brussels that advocates the independence of Flanders and strict limits on immigration, whereby immigrants would be obliged to adopt Flemish culture and language...

 for the constituency Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde
Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde
Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde is a Belgian electoral and judicial arrondissement in the center of the country, encompassing:* the officially bilingual Brussels-Capital Region, which coincides...

.

Career

He studied law at the Catholic University of Leuven
Catholic University of Leuven
The Catholic University of Leuven, or of Louvain, was the largest, oldest and most prominent university in Belgium. The university was founded in 1425 as the University of Leuven by John IV, Duke of Brabant and approved by a Papal bull by Pope Martin V.During France's occupation of Belgium in the...

 (licenciate in 1990) and postgraduate Media
Media studies
Media studies is an academic discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history and effects of various media; in particular, the 'mass media'. Media studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly from its core disciplines of mass...

 and Informatics
Informatics (academic field)
Informatics is the science of information, the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems. Informatics studies the structure, algorithms, behavior, and interactions of natural and artificial systems that store, process, access and communicate information...

 (K.U.Leuven
Leuven
Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region, Belgium...

, 1991). He was active as a solicitor
Solicitor
Solicitors are lawyers who traditionally deal with any legal matter including conducting proceedings in courts. In the United Kingdom, a few Australian states and the Republic of Ireland, the legal profession is split between solicitors and barristers , and a lawyer will usually only hold one title...

 from 1992 till 2004.

Laeremans is also municipal councelor and chairman of the party Flemish Interest (Vlaams Belang) within the municipal council of Grimbergen
Grimbergen
Grimbergen is a municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium. The municipality comprises the towns of Beigem, Grimbergen, Humbeek and Strombeek-Bever. On January 1, 2006 Grimbergen had a total population of 33,965. The total area is...

. In his municipality, he is regarded as one of the most popular politicians. He obtained for instance 2395 preference votes in the Belgian municipal elections in 2006, which is much above the second score, that one of Christian Democratic and Flemish mayor Eddy Willems, who obtained 1377 preference votes.

In the Chamber of Representatives, he’s a member of the subsequent committees:
  • Committee for Justice
  • Committee for the Revision of the Constitution and the Institutions
  • Working group of the Committee for the Revision of the Constitution responsible for the investigation of the proposals concerning the evaluation of the law
  • Working group responsible for the investigation of Title II of the Constitution


He is substitute for the:
  • Committee for the Naturalizations
  • Committee responsible for the problems concerning Commercial and Economical Law
  • Committee for the Finances and the Budget

Family ties

His grandfather, Leo Wouters, was a senator representing the former Flemish nationalist party Volksunie.

His father, Johan Laeremans, was a treasurer and deputy-chairman of the Volksunie.

His brother Jan Laeremans is a provincial councelor in the Flemish province Vlaams-Brabant.

His brother Dirk Laeremans was a chief-editor of Doorbraak, the magazine of the Vlaamse Volksbeweging
Vlaamse Volksbeweging
The or VVB is a Flemish nationalist thinktank and pressure group located in Berchem, Belgium.The VVB claims to be completely independent, although several politicians can be found among the members....

the Flemish popular movement.

External links

Profile on a web site of the Vlaams Belang Vlaams Belang Grimbergen

Source

This article is a translation of the Dutch article on Wikipedia.
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