Pol Van Den Driessche (born 1959) is a Belgian ex-journalist, writer and politician.

Pol Van Den Driessche
Pol Van Den Driessche, 2008
Senator
Assumed office
July 2014 (2014-07)
In office
28 June 2007 (2007-06-28) – June 2011
Personal details
Born22 June 1959
Oudenaarde
NationalityBelgian
Political partyNew Flemish Alliance
ResidenceBruges
Websitewww.polvandendriessche.be

Van Den Driessche joined with the Christian Democratic and Flemish party (CD&V) in 2007 and was elected as a member of the Belgian Senate in the same year. He moved to the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) after ending his term, in 2011, and became a co-opted senator for this party in 2014.

In 2012, Van Den Driessche stood down as a candidate in the local elections in Bruges after being accused of sexual abuse. On 7 August 2014, he made the papers because he tried to edit or mitigate references to these accusations on his Dutch Wikipedia page.[1] In the 2018 local elections he led the N-VA list in Bruges. He got elected as a council member, but his party suffered a big loss in the city.

References

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  1. ^ "Van den Driessche: 'Ik bewerkte zelf Wikipedia-profiel'".
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