Stéphanie Koplowicz (born 16 May 1977 in

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) is a Belgian politician, currently sitting in the

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with the

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. She holds a bachelor's degree in arts and has a son who is disabled. Koplowicz served as a marketing assistant for Randstad from 1999 to 2000. Afterwards, she worked in a number of different jobs, including independent journalism, translation, casting assistant, and from 2011 to 2012, as a consultation for the city of Schaerbeek.

Political career

Koplowicz was elected as a municipal councillor in

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on the PTB list in the

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. During the campaign, one of her posters was targeted by neo-Nazi vandalism. In the

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, she was elected to the

, the francophone authority of the

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. She was named head of the

caucus on the commission. In November 2019, she signed an open letter supporting the

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for being critical of Israel and declared that she supported the cancellation of an economic mission of the Wallonian and Bruxelloise regions to Israel. In September 2020, she spoke at a rally in Brussels in favour of abortion rights. During the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium, she expressed difficulties over the commission's handling of online meetings, as she suffered from a visual disability.

References

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