Kristof Calvo y Castañer (born 30 January 1987) is a Belgian politician. He is a member of the
Flemish left-wing green party. At the moment he is a
federal representative. Since 2014, Calvo is parliamentary group leader of Groen in the federal Chamber of Representatives. Since January 2013, he has been a councillor in
Mechelen.
Calvo was born in Rumst to a Spanish
Catalan
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Catalonia
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* Catalan language, a Romance language
* Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia
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* 13178 Catalan, asteroid #1 ...
father, himself born in Barcelona but who migrated to Belgium with his family in 1960, and a Belgian mother. At home the family spoke Dutch and Kristof declared to the Barcelona's newspaper
La Vanguardia
' (; , Spanish for "The Vanguard") is a Spanish daily newspaper, founded in 1881. It is printed in Spanish and, since 3 May 2011, also in Catalan (Spanish copy is automatically translated into Catalan). It has its headquarters in Barcelona and i ...
in 2010 that he doesn't have enough vocabulary to speak Spanish and Catalan. He doesn't have the Spanish nationality. In 2010, at the age of 23, he became the youngest direct-elected representative in Belgian history.
During the controversy over the Belgian federal government's attitude towards the
2017 Spanish constitutional crisis
Seventeen or 17 may refer to:
*17 (number), the natural number following 16 and preceding 18
* one of the years 17 BC, AD 17, 1917, 2017
Literature
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, Kristof Calvo took a moderate attitude: condemnation of the violences by the Spanish police against Catalans but pleading for a dialogue between Madrid and the Catalans.
[ Belga,]
Crombez: "Dit is een diplomatiek probleem dat je niet kan afdoen met nietszeggende verklaringen"
, ''De Morgen
''De Morgen'' (Dutch for ''The Morning'') is a Flemish newspaper with a circulation of 53,860. The paper is published in Antwerp, Belgium.
History and profile
''De Morgen'' originates from a merger in 1978 of two socialist newspapers ' (meaning ...
'', 31 October 2017
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1987 births
Living people
Belgian people of Spanish descent
People from Rumst
Groen (political party) politicians
Members of the Belgian Federal Parliament
21st-century Belgian politicians
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