Guy Vanhengel
Guy Vanhengel ( born June 10, 1958 in Brussels) is a Belgian politician of the Flemish liberals Open en Democraten (Open VLD). Vanhengel held for a long time, the Office of Finance and Budget Minister in the Brussels -Capital Region (2000 to 2009). Since 2009 he is at the federal level Deputy Prime Minister and Budget Minister in the outgoing government Leterme II On a local level, he is a member of the municipal council in Evere since 1989.
Life
His professional career began Guy Vanhengel in 1979 as a teacher at the Kakelbontschool in Brussels. At the same time he worked as an information Responsible for Radio Contact (1979 to 1982) and as an employee in the Flemish newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws ( HLN ) (1979 to 1988). After completing his military service in 1982, the political career began as Vanhengels spokesman Annemie Neyts- Uyttebroeck (PVV ), the then Secretary of State for the Brussels-Capital Region. A few years later, he was spokesman for the PVV, chaired by Guy Verhofstadt ( 1984-1985 ) and Guy Verhofstadt himself, as this Deputy Prime Minister in the governments Martens VI and VII Martens ( 1985-1988 ) was. In addition to several other mandates Guy Vanhengel took over in 1988, the function of the Director of the Flemish Tourist Agency ( Tourisme Vlaanderen ), but worked until 1989 as a communications manager in the office of the then Minister of Culture of the Flemish Government Patrick Dewael (PVV ).
Even a member of the municipal council in Evere, Guy Vanhengel was finally in 1989, the press spokesman for the PVV and later VLD faction in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate. He held this position until 1995, year in which he was elected as an MP in the Parliament of the Brussels -Capital Region. He was from 2000 to 2009 Minister for Finance and the Budget. From 2003 to 2004 he also got into the Flemish Government under a Prime Minister Dewael after Bert Anciaux (VU) had resigned due to internal party disputes. The year 2009 brought many changes for Vanhengel. Since the then Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht (Open VLD) was promoted to the European Commission, there to replace Louis Michel (MR ), Guy Vanhengel was promoted to the federal government under Herman Van Rompuy (CD & V) as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Budget.
The same office he held in the successor government Leterme II, Yves Leterme (CD & V). When the Open VLD decided under the chairmanship of Alexander De Croo in April 2010 after unsuccessful negotiations about the division of the electoral district of Brussels-Halle -Vilvoorde (BHV ) to leave the federal government and thus triggered early elections in which the party many votes lost belonged Vanhengel, which now for one of the tenors of the Open VLD advanced to the critics of the approach of the party president.