Paul Van Miert (born May 3, 1965, in Turnhout) is a Belgian politician for the N-VA party.
He is a cousin of the former sp.a politician Karel Van Miert.
In 2006 Van Miert became a member of the district board as well as of the national party council of N-VA. He ran for the first time in the 2006 municipal elections in the municipality of Oud-Turnhout. He was elected as a councilor for the cartel of CD&V and N-VA. In the 2012 municipal elections, he was re-elected as a councilor. His party became the largest faction in the city council with nine seats, but ended up in opposition after CD&V concluded an administrative agreement with sp.a and Groen!. In the 2014 Belgian regional elections he was elected to the Flemish Parliament for the Antwerp constituency.[1] In the Flemish elections of 2019, he was re-elected from sixth place on the Antwerp N-VA list. In the Flemish Parliament, Van Miert was chairman of the committee for General Policy, Finance and Budget from 2016 to 2019.[2]
References edit
- ^ "Verkiezingen 2014 - Vlaams Parlement - Voorkeurstemmen Kieskring Antwerpen". Elections2014.belgium.be. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
- ^ "Paul van Miert - Vlaams Parlement". Archived from the original on 2021-09-08. Retrieved 2021-09-27.