Founded 1980 | ||
Leader Patrick Dupriez and Zakia Khattabi Headquarters Espace KegeljanAv. de Marlagne 52 Namur | ||
Ecolo (which officially stands for the backronym Écologistes Confédérés pour l'organisation de luttes originales "Confederated ecologists for the organisation of original struggles", but is really just short for écologiste, French for environmentalist) is a French-speaking political party in Belgium based on green politics. The party is active in Wallonia, the Brussels-Capital Region and the German-speaking Community. Ecolo currently participates in the Brussels regional government.
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The party was part of the outgoing federal coalition, but it resigned before the 2003 general election, and was promptly decimated by a resurgent Socialist Party. They however made quite a comeback in the 2007 general election, though without reaching their 1999 peak popularity. In the 10 June 2007 general elections, the party won 8 out of 150 seats in the Chamber of Representatives and 2 out of 40 seats in the Senate which are directly elected.
In the 2010 elections the party won 8 seats in the Chamber of Representatives and 2 in the Senate.
European Parliament
French-speaking electoral college
German-speaking electoral college
Current
Chamber of Representatives
- Ronny Balcaen
- Juliette Boulet
- Olivier Deleuze (resigned in 2012; replaced by Lahssaini Fouad)
- Zoé Genot
- Muriel Gerkens
- George Gilkinet
- Eric Jadot
- Thérèse Snoy et d'Oppuers
Brussels-Capital Region Parlement
- Aziz Albishari
- Dominique Braeckman
- Jean-Claude Defosse
- Céline Delforge
- Anne Dirix
- Anne Herscovici
- Zakia Khattabi
- Vincent Lurquin
- Alain Maron
- Jacques Morel
- Ahmed Mouhssin
- Marie Nagy
- Yaron Pesztat
- Arnaud Pinxteren
- Barbara Trachte
- Vincent Vanhalewyn
Past
Chamber of Representatives
- Philippe Dallons
- Olivier Deleuze
- Thierry Detienne
- Mylène Nys (20 April 1999) (replaced Vincent Decroly)
- Martine Schüttringer
- Jean-Pierre Viseur
- Marie-Thérèse Coenen
- Martine Dardenne
- Vincent Decroly
- Olivier Deleuze → Zoé Genot (14 July 1999)
- Thierry Detienne → Muriel Gerkens (23 July 1999)
- Claudine Drion
- Michèle Gilkinet
- Mirella Minne
- Géraldine Pelzer-Salandra
- Paul Timmermans → Bernard Baille (1 September 2002)
- Jean-Pierre Viseur → Gérard Gobert (10 January 2001)
- Zoé Genot (replaced Olivier Deleuze)
- Muriel Gerkens
- Gérard Gobert (replaced Jean-Marc Nollet)
- Marie Nagy
- Juliette Boulet
- Zoé Genot
- Muriel Gerkens
- Georges Gilkinet
- Philippe Henry
- Fouad Lahssaini
- Jean-Marc Nollet
- Thérèse Snoy et d'Oppuers
Brussels-Capital Region Parlement
- Dominique Braeckman
- Alain Daems
- Céline Delforge
- Christos Doulkeridis
- Josy Dubié
- Paul Galand
- Yaron Pesztat