Jacques Simonet

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Jacques Simonet (21 December 1963 - 14 June 2007[1]) was a Belgian politician and a former Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region.

He is the son of Henri Simonet, former Socialist Party minister and for many years mayor of Anderlecht. His mother Marie-Louise Angenet taught at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

He was born in Watermael-Boitsfort, Belgium. He studied law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He married Véronica Labe, a notary, in 1988; they had two children. He entered politics as a student activist in the Socialist Party, but later became a member of the Reformist Movement (MR).

Simonet served as mayor of Anderlecht from 2000 until his death and as Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region from July 15, 1999, to October 18, 2000. He served as state secretary for European Affairs of Belgium from 12 July 2003 until 12 February 2004 when he became Minister-President of Brussels for the second time on the resignation of Daniel Ducarme following revelations of Ducarme's unpaid taxes in the newspaper Vers L'Avenir. He led the MR list in the elections of June 2004, losing to the Socialists led by former Minister-President Charles Picqué and gave up the minister-presidency a month later.

Simonet was hospitalised on 9 September 2006 as the result of a pulmonary embolism.[2] In the elections which followed on 8 October 2006 he was re-elected as mayor of Anderlecht with 8500 preference votes. On 14 June 2007 he suddenly died of a heart attack aged only 43.[3][4][5][6]

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  1. ^ Gemeente Anderlecht opent rouwregister voor Simonet. DeMorgen.be. Retrieved on 2007-06-14. (Dutch)
  2. ^ Jacques Simonet hospitalisé à la suite d'une embolie pulmonaire. 7SUR7.be. Retrieved on 2007-06-14. (French)
  3. ^ Jacques Simonet plots overleden. Vrtnieuws.net. Retrieved on 2007-06-14. (Dutch)
  4. ^ Décès de Jacques Simonet. RTBF.be. Retrieved on 2007-06-14. (French)
  5. ^ Jacques Simonet nous a quittés à l’âge de 43 ans. MR-BXL.be. Retrieved on 2007-06-14. (French)
  6. ^ Jacques Simonet est mort. LaLibre.be. Retrieved on 2007-06-14. (French)

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Preceded by
Charles Picqué		 Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region
1999–2000		 Succeeded by
François-Xavier de Donnéa
Preceded by
Daniel Ducarme		 Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region
2004		 Succeeded by
Charles Picqué
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