Yoleen Van Camp (born 25 August 1987 in Antwerp) is a Belgian politician and is affiliated to the New Flemish Alliance. She has been a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives since 2014.[1][2]
Biography edit
Van Camp obtained a high school degree (Latin-Modern Languages) in Herentals. After this, she obtained her master's degree in Nursing. Right before being elected in 2014, she gained a PhD in Medical Sciences from the University of Antwerp.[3] She lives in Herentals.
She was elected as a local councilwoman for the town council of Kasterlee in 2012. As she moved to Herentals, she no longer holds office in Kasterlee since December 2015.[4][5]
At the Belgian federal elections on 25 May 2014, Van Camp was elected for the Chamber of Representatives with a higher number of votes than she expected.[6] She took office on 19 June 2014.[2] She was the youngest Flemish representative.[7] She is a member of several parliamentary committees, among which the Health, Environment and Social Innovations Committee and the Naturalization Committee.[1]
On 11 July 2017, she caused concern by tweeting that she does not acknowledge the Belgian National Holiday as a public holiday. She considers 11 July, the non-official Flemish Region Holiday, to be her national holiday.[8][9]
Scandal edit
In Juli 2018 Yoleen caused an uproar in Herentals when her LinkedIn profile briefly contained an internal e-mail in which she disrespected several of her fellow political co-workers. She even made a comment about one co-worker with a speech impediment, saying it was exhausting communicating with him. When confronted with the e-mail Yoleen made quick accusations telling her ex-boyfriend was probably responsible, hacking her LinkedIn profile. Her boyfriend was quick to dismiss these accusations, to which Yoleen filed a complaint with the police.
In the following days several members of N-VA Herentals left or were forced to leave the party. Some of them had publicly said the accusations Yoleen made towards her ex-boyfriend were unfounded. They also blamed Yoleen for being unrespectful towards other people.to which some of the former members started a new political party, HA! (Herentals Anders / Herentals Differently).
References edit
- ^ a b "De Belgische Kamer van volksvertegenwoordigers - Yoleen Van Camp". www.dekamer.be (in Dutch). Retrieved 2017-07-23.
- ^ a b "Lijst van de Kamerleden en hun opvolgers" (PDF). Kamer van Volksvertegenwoordigers (pdf) (in Dutch and French). 2014-06-19.
- ^ "Yoleen Van Camp" (in Dutch). Retrieved 2017-07-23.
- ^ Justaert, Marjan (2016-01-05). "N-VA broedt op stoelendans voor lokale stembusslag 2018". De Standaard (in Dutch). Retrieved 2017-07-23.
- ^ Keyenberg, Paul (2016-12-16). "Van Camp en Van Nijlen wisselen van kamp". Gazet van Antwerpen (in Dutch). Retrieved 2017-07-23.
- ^ Keyenberg, Paul (2014-05-27). "26-jarige Yoleen haalt meer stemmen dan burgemeester". Het Nieuwsblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 2017-07-23.
- ^ Van nieuwenhuysen, Guy (2014-07-20). ""Zo veel belangstelling had ik niet verwacht"". Gazet van Antwerpen (in Dutch). Retrieved 2017-07-23.
- ^ Van Camp, Yoleen (2017-07-20). "Feestdag? Niks te feestdag. Die van ons was 11.07. Vandaag stapel dossiers naturalisatie afwerken #21julipic.twitter.com/68KDwrkJtE". @YoleenVanCamp (in Dutch). Retrieved 2017-07-23.
- ^ "Pour une députée fédérale de la N-VA, le 21 juillet "n'est pas un jour de fête"". Soirmag (in French). Retrieved 2017-07-23.