Jo Vandeurzen

Jo Vandeurzen
Jo Vandeurzen
Jo Vandeurzen
Photo credit: [Wouter Appeltans]
Flemish Minister
Personal details
Born Johan Maria Gerardus Vandeurzen
2 June 1958
Heusden, Belgium
Nationality Belgium
Occupation politician

Johan Maria Gerardus "Jo" Vandeurzen (born 2 June 1958) is a Belgian politician, member of Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams (CD&V), a centrist Flemish Christian Democratic party. He was the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Justice and Institutional Reforms in the Leterme I Government (the Belgian federal government), which took office on 20 March 2008. On 19 December 2008 he resigned after a crisis.[1]

After the 2009 Flemish regional election, CD&V was the largest party and he received 69,223 preference votes. When the 2009–2014 Peeters II Government took office, he became the Flemish Minister for Welfare, Public Health and Family.

He is a Master of Laws from the Catholic University of Leuven. He works at Geyskens-Vandeurzen in Beringen.[2]

Political career

References

  1. "Belgium: PM offers resignation over banking deal". CNN. 19 December 2008. Retrieved 6 May 2010.
  2. "20 March 2008 – Royal Orders. Government – Dismissals – Appointments" (PDF) (in Dutch and French). The Belgian Official Journal. 2008-03-21. pp. 3–4. Retrieved 2008-03-30.

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