Sabine de Bethune

Sabine de Bethune (* July 16, 1958 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo ), full name Sabine Louise Caroline Baroness de Bethune is a Belgian lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratisch en Vlaams (CD & V). It is long -standing and Senator since October 11, 2011 President of the Belgian Senate.

Life

Sabine de Bethune comes from a noble family and is the daughter of the former mayor of Kortrijk, Emmanuel Pierre de Bethune. Her father was doing business in the Belgian Congo so that Sabine de Bethune in the former colony city Leopoldville (now Kinshasa ) was born.

De Bethune studied law at the Catholic University of Leuven and worked from 1983 to 1988 as an attorney in Kortrijk. Thereafter, it was a political adviser in the cabinets of the CVP Minister Paul Deprez (1985 to 1987) and Mrs Smet (1987 to 1995).

Your entry into active politics Sabine de Bethune made ​​in 1995, when she was chosen for the CVP in the Belgian Senate. There they took over in 2003 and sparked the group's presidency 11 October 2011 Danny Pieters ( N -VA) as President of this Assembly from.