André Antoine (politician)

André Antoine
André Antoine 2010
Born	3 February 1960 Leuven/Louvain, Belgium
Occupation	Politician Mayor
Political party	PSC / cdH

André Antoine (born 3 February 1960) is a Belgian politician, minister and mayor. He has been a member of the francophone cdH (Humanist Democratic Centre party) since 1980. He was elected to the presidency of the Wallon parliament on 22 July 2014.

André Antoine was born at Leuven/Louvain. He comes from a farming family. He achieved his Licentiate in Law at the Catholic (i.e. francophone) University of Louvain in 1983. His degree in Higher European Studies followed a year later.

His political career began in 1980 when he joined the Christian Socialist Party (PSC, as the cdH was then called), becoming a special advisor to the party presidency. In 1983 he started to work as a cabinet assistant for the Belgian Minister for Scientific Policy and Panning, Philippe Maystadt, moving on to work as an "attaché" to the party president in 1984/85.

Antoine was a member of the municipal council in Ramillies between 1988 and 1994. Since 1994 he has been a councillor in nearby Perwez where he has also served as the mayor since 2000. From 1991 till 1994 he served as a county councillor for Brabant (later Walloon Brabant), also serving as cabinet chief to Michel Lebrun ().

In October 1985 he was selected as a PSC representative ("volksvertegenwoordiger") for the Nivelles Arrondissement, a mandate he retained till 1991. In 1995 he became a member of the newly renamed and reconfigured Parliament of Wallonia in Namur, and the Parliament of the French Community, which for most purposes is the name used for the same parliament when convening in Brussels as part of the national legislative structure.

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