Caroline Gennez

Caroline Gennez ( born August 21, 1975 in Sint- Truiden ) is a Belgian politician of the Socialist Party Other ( sp.a ). She is a member of the Flemish Parliament and current leader of the Sp.A. At the local level it is Alderman in the City Council of Mechelen.

Life

In their younger years Caroline Gennez was traded as a promising tennis talent, but broke off his training at age 14. After a Latin - Greek school, she studied at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL ) Political and Social Sciences.

Your entry into politics came after she completed an internship in a refugee and later women's shelter. She joined in 1998 the Young Socialists ( Socialists Jong - JS) and formed in 2001 with the union under her chairmanship to Animo order. From 1999 to 2003 Gennez was in the office of the then Minister of Social Integration and Social Economy, Johan Vande Lanotte ( sp.a ), busy.

In 2003, Caroline Gennez was co-opted in the Senate, but left that one year later, after she was elected to the Flemish Parliament. Also, she was elected in 2003 as vice president of sp.a. In 2005 when the then party president Steve Stevaert his office gave to accept the governor of the province of Limburg, Gennez replaced him interim for a few months and ad at the top of Sp.A. In October 2005, she gave the chair to Johan Vande Lanotte.

After the internal party elections in 2007, and after a bitter defeat for the Flemish Socialists, Gennez finally solved then Vande Lanotte from the party leadership. In 2009, when some politicians in the party VlaamsProgressieven ( Vl.Pro ) (later than Sociaal - Liberal Partij (SLP) in Groen! Risen ) with Bert Anciaux to wanted to change sp.a suggested Gennez a renaming of the party in " Socialists en progressieven different " before and he earned heavy criticism, including from former ministers Freddy Willockx and Louis Tobback. In the same year Gennez hit the headlines after an e -mail was published, in which they come up with a confidant who is not the Sp.A. belonged, exchanged on the way, as the Minister of the Flemish government were appointed. It was in particular discussed how Frank Vandenbroucke, himself a former president of the SP could be circumvented. Gennez apologized for the incident and retained the confidence of the party.

At the local level Gennez Caroline moved in 2003 from their hometown Sint- Truiden to Mechelen to and therefore had their mandates in Sint- Truiden exits. Since 2006 she has represented in the council of Mechelen and is also where he worked as First Deputy mayor.

Caroline Gennez was awarded the Order of Leopold.

Overview of political offices

• 2001 - 2003: Alderman in Sint- Truiden
• 2003: Deputy mayor in Sint- Truiden
• 2003 - 2004: Senator ( co-opted )
• 2004 - 2007: Member of the Flemish Parliament
• 2006 - present: Alderman and Alderman in Mechelen
• 2009 - present: Member of the Flemish Parliament