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Maria Vindevoghel
Maria Vindevoghel (born 11 October 1957) is a Belgian shop steward and politician affiliated with the Workers' Party of Belgium. Biography Maria Vindevoghel was born in Waregem, Waregem, Belgium, and grew up in a primarily farming family in West Flanders. At 20, she moved to Brussels at Molenbeek-Saint-Jean. Vindevoghel became an aircraft cleaner at Sabena. After the bankruptcy of the airline in 2001, she gained some notoriety as a spokeswoman for Sabena employees. Proceedings were brought before the Labour Tribunal (Belgium), Labour Court by the ex-Sabenians because the Federal Government of Belgium, government Verhofstadt I Government, Verhofstadt I would not have respected the social plan. The Politics of Belgium, Belgian Government argued that the Federal Government had indeed made a mistake, but also put the 31 former employees of the bankrupt airline in the wrong. She then became a cleaner at Baggage handling system, baggage handler ''FlightCare''. In the summer of 2005, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgian Chamber Of Representatives
The Chamber of Representatives (; ; ) is one of the two chambers in the bicameral Federal Parliament of Belgium, the other being the Senate. It is considered to be the "lower house" of the Federal Parliament. Members and elections Article 62 of the Belgian Constitution fixes the number of seats in the Chamber of Representatives at 150. There are 11 electoral districts, which correspond with the ten Provinces (five Dutch- and five French-speaking) and the Brussels-Capital Region. Prior to the sixth Belgian state reform, the province of Flemish Brabant was divided into two electoral districts: one for Leuven and the other, named Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde (BHV), which encompassed both the 19 bilingual municipalities from the Brussels-Capital Region and the 35 Dutch-speaking municipalities of Halle-Vilvoorde in Flemish Brabant, including seven municipalities with linguistic facilities for French-speaking inhabitants. The seats are divided among the political parties using the D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
