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Nationality
  
Belgian

Residence
  
Lokeren, Belgium

Role
  
Politician

Name
  
Miet Smet

Website
  
www.mietsmet.be


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Born
  
5 April 1943 (age 80) Sint-Niklaas (
1943-04-05
)

Political party
  
Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams

Committees
  
President and Chair of AWEPA

Spouse
  
Wilfried Martens (m. 2008)

Party
  
Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams

People also search for
  
Wilfried Martens, Sophie Martens, Anne Martens, Sarah Martens, Kris Martens, Simon Martens

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Miet Smet (born 5 April 1943) is a Belgian politician for the Christian Democratic and Flemish party (CD&V).

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Miet Smet was the founder (1973) and first president (until 1982) of the Christian People's Party political women's organisation, Vrouw en Maatschappij (Woman and Society).

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She was elected to the Belgian Chamber of People's Representatives in 1978. In 1985 she became State Secretary of Environmental Affairs, and negotiated an Equal Opportunities portfolio. While Smet's competencies cover all aspects of social emancipation, she focused on violence against women, women's economic position and their participation in decision-making. When Miet Smet became Minister of Labour and Employment in 1991, she kept the Equal Opportunities portfolio.

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When she was offered first place in the CD&V list for the European elections in 1999 instead of Wilfried Martens, Martens, at the instigation of then-wife Ilse Schouteden, refused to run at all.

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Miet Smet was a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2004.

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She became a Minister of State in 2002, and has been a member of the Flemish Parliament since 2004, and a Belgian senator since 2007.

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On 27 September 2008, she married fellow CD&V politician and former Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens. After the death of Martens' first wife, Lieve Verschroeven, the marriage was confirmed in the Catholic Church on 27 April 2013.

In 2009, Smet was elected president of the Association of European Parliamentarians with Africa (AWEPA), taking over from former president Dr. Jan Nico Scholten.

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Honours

  • 2002 : Minister of state by Royal Decree.
  • 2004 : Grand Officer in the Order of Leopold.
  • 2002 : Dame Grand Cross in the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
  • References

    Miet Smet Wikipedia