François Marie Gabriel André Charles-Ferdinand Roelants du Vivier (born 5 November 1947) is a Belgian politician and a member of Ecolo and later the FDF (

Francophone Democratic Federalists French became an international language in the Middle Ages, when the power of the Kingdom of France made it the second international language, alongside Latin. This status continued to grow into the 18th century, by which time French was the la ...

). He is part of the political family Nothomb; his grandfather is

Pierre Nothomb Pierre, Baron Nothomb (28 March 1887 – 29 December 1966) was a Belgian writer and right-wing politician. He was well known for his varied and voluminous output of prose and poetry. His works included poetry, essays, novels, biographies marked b ...

and his ancestors include

Jean-Baptiste Nothomb Jean-Baptiste, Baron Nothomb (3 July 1805 – 16 September 1881) was a Belgian statesman and diplomat, who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 1841 to 1845. Life Revolution Born at Messancy in Luxembourg on 3 July 1805, he was educated ...

, who helped draft the Belgian Constitution and served as Prime Minister. Roelants du Vivier started his career in Ecolo, and was a

Member of the European Parliament A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...

elected in 1984 and serving until 1989. In 1988 he started the ''Europe-Régions-Environnement'' (ERE) movement after leaving Ecolo. In 1993, he announced that he would found a new party, a Belgian equivalent of the French

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and the German

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inside the

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. Under the electoral alliance FDF-ERE, he was elected to the Brussels Parliament in the

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. He was re-elected 1995, 1999 and 2004. From 2000 until 2009 he also served in the

Parliament of the French Community The Parliament of the French Community (french: Parlement de la Communauté française or PCF) is the legislative assembly of the French Community of Belgium based in the Quartier Royal. It consists of all 75 members of the Walloon Parliament exce ...

and the

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as community senator. From 1994 until 2000 he was also municipal councillor in

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Living people Reformist Movement politicians Members of the Senate (Belgium) Members of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region 1947 births 21st-century Belgian politicians {{Belgium-MEP-stub