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Preceded by
  
Name
  
Jacques Simonet

Succeeded by
  
Charles Picque

Role
  
Belgian Politician


Preceded by
  
Charles Picque

Parents
  
Henri Simonet

Party
  
Mouvement Reformateur

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Succeeded by
  
Francois-Xavier de Donnea

Born
  
21 December 1963Watermael-Boitsfort, Belgium (
1963-12-21
)

Alma mater
  
Free University of Brussels, French

Died
  
June 14, 2007, Anderlecht, Belgium

Education
  
Universite libre de Bruxelles

Political party
  
Reformist Movement

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Jacques Simonet (21 December 1963 - 14 June 2007) was a Belgian politician and a former Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region.

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Life

He is the son of Henri Simonet, former Socialist Party minister and for many years mayor of Anderlecht. His mother Marie-Louise Angenet taught at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

He was born in Watermael-Boitsfort, Belgium. He studied law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He married Véronica Labe, a notary, in 1988; they had two children. He entered politics as a student activist in the Fédération des étudiants libéraux, a right-wing party and later became a member of the Reformist Movement (MR).

Simonet served as mayor of Anderlecht from 2000 until his death and as Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region from 15 July 1999 to 18 October 2000. He served as state secretary for European Affairs of Belgium from 12 July 2003 until 12 February 2004 when he became Minister-President of Brussels for the second time on the resignation of Daniel Ducarme following revelations of Ducarme's unpaid taxes in the newspaper L'Avenir . He led the MR list in the elections of June 2004, losing to the Socialists led by former Minister-President Charles Picqué and gave up the minister-presidency a month later.

Simonet was hospitalised on 9 September 2006 as the result of a pulmonary embolism. In the elections which followed on 8 October 2006 he was re-elected as mayor of Anderlecht with 8500 preference votes. On 14 June 2007 he suddenly died of a heart attack aged only 43.

References

Jacques Simonet Wikipedia


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