Jean Pierre Marie Olivier Germain Defraigne (Roosendaal and Nispen, 19 April 1929) is a Belgian liberal politician and minister for the Liberal Reformist Party

Liberal Reformist Party

The Parti Réformateur Libéral was a Belgian liberal party active in Wallonia and Brussels. It grew out of the unitiarian PVV-PLP and has since become part of the Mouvement Réformateur.-PVV-PLP:* Omer Vanaudenhove 1961 - 1968...

 (PRL).

Defraigene graduated as a doctor in law at the Université de Liège and was a lawyer and alderman in Liège

Liège

Liège is a major city and municipality of Belgium located in the province of Liège, of which it is the economic capital, in Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium....

. He was member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives (1965–1974 and 1977–1989) and senator in the Belgian Senate

Belgian Senate

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 (1974–1977) for the PRL and was President (1981–1988) of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives of public work (1974–1976). In 1983, Jean Defraigne was appointed as Minister of State

Minister of State

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• Ministries, etc.
• Gouvernement Leo Tindemans II (11.06.1974 – 4.03.1977)

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