Yves Leterme
Yves Camille Désiré Leterme ( born October 6, 1960 in Wervik, Belgium) is a Belgian politician of the Christian Democratisch en Vlaams (CD & V). He is a former Prime Minister of the Flemish Region and was dated 25 November 2009 to 5 December 2011, Belgian Prime Minister and head of government. He has held on 20 March 2008 to 30 December 2008 This Office. From 17 July 2009 to 25 November 2009, he was Belgian Foreign Minister.
Biography
Leterme is the son of a French-speaking father and a Flemish mother. He went to Ypres to school and studied law and political science at the University of Ghent. From 1987 to 1989 he worked as an auditor for the Belgian Court of Auditors. He then began his career on regional party in the Flemish Christian Democrat party CD & V (then CVP) and brought it in 1991 to the National Secretary until he became a civil servant to the European Union. In 1997 he became a member of the Belgian Parliament and exempted indefinitely by the European Union. 1999 and 2003 he was re- elected to parliament. From 1995 to 2001 he was also a councilor in Ypres.
After the defeat of the CD & V in the parliamentary elections in 2003 Leterme was the party chairman, succeeding Stefaan De Clerck. 2004 won the CD & V Flemish regional elections and Leterme became Prime Minister in a coalition government with smaller parties. Then Leterme gave the party presidency again.
In the Belgian parliamentary elections on June 10, 2007 Leterme took up as the leading candidate of the CD & V. Following the significant gains of the Christian Democrats in both Flanders and Wallonia Leterme received the order of King Albert II to form a government; then he laid down his office as a Flemish Prime Minister. He first led coalition negotiations with the Flemish Liberals and the French-speaking Christian Democrats and Liberals. However, as no progress in a required by the Flemings, of the Francophones, however, rejected further transfer of powers from the central state could be achieved in the regions, Leterme announced on August 23, the order to form a government back. He was a month later, again commissioned by Albert II to form a government, but admitted on 1 December 2007, the final failure of the formation of a government led by him one. In the sworn on 21 December 2007 the transitional government of Guy Verhofstadt Leterme has held the offices of Vice - Prime Minister and the Minister for the Budget, mobility and institutional reforms.
On 18 March 2008 it was announced that Flemish and Walloon Christian Democrats (CD & V and cdH ) and liberals (Open VLD and MR ) and the Walloon Socialists (PS ) had agreed to form a joint government with Leterme as Prime Minister. On 20 March 2008 he was sworn in as Prime Minister of Belgium.
However, on 14 July 2008, he offered the Belgian king in his resignation because his government on reform of the state had been unable to agree on what Leterme had set a deadline of July 15 set. The reform should by a new distribution of powers between State and Regions defuse the constant, debilitating conflict between the two parts of the country of Belgium. However, Albert II rejected the resignation Leterme on July 17 and charged three politicians to convey the state reform in conflict.
On 19 December 2008 Leterme offered the resignation of his entire government. The Office of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice had been accused of having influenced a court process for the sale of the troubled Fortis bank. After the government announced the sale of 75 percent of the shares of the French bank BNP Paribas in September 2008, attracted the small shareholders of Fortis in court because they had not been consulted. The court of second instance that all transactions must be subjected to an ordinary shareholder vote. This decision, like the Belgian Court of Cassation stated in a report that the government is trying to prevent. Leterme denied the attempt to influence. On December 22, King Albert II accepted the resignation. The government Leterme was first business leader in office. December 30, 2008 Herman Van Rompuy was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Belgium.
Leterme had made on 21 July 2007 headlines by incorrectly using the " Proclamation of the Constitution " when asked about the reason for the Belgian national holiday on 21 July; actually put on that day, the first King of the Belgians the oath on the constitution from. He also confused the reporter of the francophone television station RTBF by the French National Anthem sang to the request to sing the Belgian national anthem.
On 17 July 2009 Leterme succeeded Karel de Gucht, who joined the EU Commission, as Secretary of the Government of Van Rompuy I after.
After Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy was designated on 19 November 2009 as the first permanent President of the European Council, he resigned as Prime Minister on 25 November 2009 down due to incompatibility of functions. On the same day, Yves Leterme was appointed Prime Minister and has since been pursuing his second federal government.
The rekindled controversy over the cutting of the electoral district of Brussels-Halle -Vilvoorde led in April 2010 to the outlet of the Flemish Open VLD from the five-party coalition Leterme. Although Leterme had a notional majority in parliament after the withdrawal of the Liberals, he filed on 22 April 2010 his resignation to King Albert II. After the king had rejected this resignation first, he took it on the evening of April 26, 2010.
13 June 2010 early elections were held, in which the CD & V suffered heavy losses. Strongest parties were the Nieuw- Vlaamse Flemish Alliantie and the francophone PS. Both parties failed to form a government which rekindled discussion on the reform of the Belgian state also began to falter. Leterme was then, despite being voted in June 2010 as executive Prime Minister in office.
On September 16, 2011 Leterme was appointed as the new Deputy Secretary General of the OECD, which is why he will leave by the end of 2011, the Belgian policy. At the OECD, Leterme will be responsible for the areas of social policy, employment, health and small and medium-sized enterprises.
Yves Leterme is married to Sofia Haesen and has three children. He lives in Ypres.