Melchior Wathelet, Jr.

Melchior Wathelet Melchior Wathelet or Junior ( born September 30, 1977 in Verviers ) is a Belgian politician of the Centre Démocrate Humaniste ( cdH ). It is a federal Member of Parliament since 2003. In the current federal government Leterme II he held the office of the State Secretary for the Budget, Migration and Asylum Policy, Family Policy and Federal cultural institutions. He is also active as a local politician in Verviers.

Curriculum vitae

Melchior Wathelet Junior (which itself rejects the Junior in his name ) is the son of Melchior Wathelet ( Senior), politician of the PSC (now cdH ) and former Belgian Justice and Defence Minister, Prime Minister of the Walloon Region and judge at the European Court of Justice ( ECJ).

Wathelet studied law ( candidacy at the Facultés universitaires Notre- Dame de la Paix ( FUNDP ) in Namur and license at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL ) in Neu- lion ) and completed in 2001, a master's degree in European law at the University of Southampton. In 2002 he was registered as a lawyer in his home town of Verviers.

The first name is given in the family Melchior Wathelet for generations the first-born son. Thus, without the first son of Melchior Wathelet Junior, the second of three children, this first name.

Political career

His political Melchior Wathelet entry experienced junior in 2003, in which he - was elected to the federal Chamber of Deputies - also thanks to its well-known name. There he had to press the opposition benches with the cdH a long legislative session. In 2004, he was able to work your way up to the group chairman and second vice - president of the cdH.

As per the federal election of 2007 changed the majorities and the cdH - after a long government crisis, during Wathelet with Joëlle Milquet for cdH negotiated - was involved in the government, he first received the Office of the Federal State Secretary for the Budget and Family Policy in the government Leterme I under Prime Minister Yves Leterme (CD & V), and in the government of Herman Van Rompuy (CD & V), after a reshuffle, the responsibilities for migration, asylum policy and federal cultural institutions. He has kept in the successor government Leterme II These responsibilities.

At local level, Melchior Wathelet has been represented since 2006 at the council of Verviers, where he belongs to the opposition.

Overview of political offices

  • 2003 - present: Member of the Lower House of Parliament ( partially prevented )
  • 2006 - present: Member of the Municipal Council in Verviers
  • 2007 - 2008: Federal State Secretary for the Budget and family policy in the government Leterme I
  • 2008 - present: Federal State Secretary for the Budget and family policy, and later migration, asylum policy and federal cultural institutions in the governments Van Rompuy and Leterme II
Leterme II Government Minister of Justice (Belgium) Van Rompuy Government
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