Philippe Monfils

Philippe Monfils ( born January 4, 1939 in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium) is a Belgian politician of the Parti de la liberté et du progrès (PLP ) and was Prime Minister of the French Community of Belgium.

Biography

After school he studied law at the University of Liege and his doctorate there in 1962 as a doctor of law degree. He then is 1962-1968 Research assistant at the Department of François Perin, a professor of constitutional law. When he later Minister for Institutional Reforms in the government of Prime Minister Leo Tindemans is, Monfils was between 1974 and 1976 Chef de Cabinet and as such responsible for the design of the subsequent regionalization of Belgium.

His own political career began with the election of a member of the municipal council of Liege, which he co-founded as a representative of the Walloon Perin Rassemblement 1976-1982 (RW) belonged. After the RW increasingly approximates the left political spectrum under the influence of Paul-Henry Gendebien, he still leaves 1976 with François Perin, Jean Gol and Étienne Knoops disappointed the RW and founded with them the Parti pour les Reformes et la Liberté de Wallonie ( PRLw ).

In 1981 he was elected a member of the Chamber of Deputies and heard this until 1988. At the same time he was from December 1981 to December 1985 Minister of Social Affairs in the Walloon Regional Government during the tenure of Prime Minister Philippe Moureaux. He was subsequently appointed as his successor on 9 December 1985 to 2 February 1988 even Prime Minister of the French Community of Belgium. As such, he also laid the foundation stone for the end of the monopoly of radio - télévision belge de la Communauté française ( RTBF ).

After the end of his tenure as prime minister of Wallonia he was in 1988 elected a member of the Senate and heard this until 1995. After the sudden death of Jean Gols on 17 September 1995, he is elected as his successor member of the 4th European Parliament and in addition also a member of the Parliament of the Walloon Region.

When he retires from the European Parliament in 1999, he is again elected Senator. As such, he sat down in the aftermath of a reform of the law of euthanasia, the right to bear arms, but also for the rehabilitation of the Circuit de Spa -Francorchamps for the continuation of the Belgian Grand Prix in Formula 1 a.

For his political merits Philippe Monfils was awarded in addition to some other politicians on January 26, 2004 with the honorary title of Minister of State.

After he was from 2003 to 2007 again a member of the Chamber of Deputies, he was in 2007 again elected member of the Senate until 2011 officiating. In May 2010, he resigned from his position as a senator back.