Cieltje Van Achter (born 1979) is a Belgian lawyer and politician and a member of the New Flemish Alliance party.
Van Achter is the daughter-in-law of former N-VA leader Geert Bourgeois. She studied law at the KU Leuven and the Université René Descartes in Paris. She later studied International Relations at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC.[1]
Since 2014, she has served as a member of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region. In the 2019 elections, she was re-elected as leader of the N-VA list in the Brussels Parliament with 3,256 preference votes. The party retained its three seats and became the second largest Dutch-speaking party. Van Achter subsequently became chairman of the N-VA faction in the Brussels Parliament.[2][3]
References edit
- ^ Brussel Nieuws (6 February 2014). "N-VA wil in de Brusselse regering". Retrieved 14 June 2014.
- ^ "Lorin Parys nieuwe ondervoorzitter N-VA". De Standaard. 8 December 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
- ^ "Cieltje Van Achter past als ondervoorzitter N-VA". De Standaard. 2021-01-18. Retrieved 2021-01-18.