Laurette Onkelinx
| Laurette Onkelinx | |
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| Minister of Social Affairs and Health | |
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In office 21 December 2007 – 11 October 2014 |
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| Prime Minister |
Guy Verhofstadt Yves Leterme Herman Van Rompuy Yves Leterme Elio Di Rupo |
| Preceded by | Rudy Demotte |
| Succeeded by | Maggie De Block |
| Minister of Justice | |
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In office 11 July 2003 – 21 December 2007 |
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| Prime Minister | Guy Verhofstadt |
| Preceded by | Marc Verwilghen |
| Succeeded by | Jo Vandeurzen |
| Minister of Labour and Transport | |
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In office 5 May 2003 – 11 July 2003 |
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| Prime Minister | Guy Verhofstadt |
| Preceded by | Herself (Labour) Isabelle Durant (Transport) |
| Succeeded by |
Peter Vanvelthoven (Labour) Renaat Landuyt (Transport) |
| Minister of Labour | |
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In office 13 July 1999 – 5 May 2003 |
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| Prime Minister | Guy Verhofstadt |
| Preceded by | Miet Smet |
| Succeeded by | Herself (Labour and Transport) |
| Minister-President of the French Community | |
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In office 6 May 1993 – 13 July 1999 |
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| Preceded by | Bernard Anselme |
| Succeeded by | Hervé Hasquin |
| Minister of Social Integration, Public Health and Environment | |
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In office 7 March 1992 – 6 May 1993 |
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| Prime Minister | Jean-Luc Dehaene |
| Preceded by | Philippe Busquin |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
2 October 1958 Ougrée, Belgium |
| Political party | Socialist Party |
| Spouse(s) | Abbès Guenned (Divorced) Marc Uyttendaele |
| Alma mater | University of Liège |
Laurette A. J. Onkelinx (born 2 October 1958 in Ougrée) is a Belgian politician from the Francophone Socialist Party. She was the Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Social Affairs and Public Health in the Belgian federal government, i.e., the Di Rupo Government, which took office on 6 December 2011.
Born to Gaston Onkelinx and Germaine Ali Bakir, of Kabyle origin, she graduated in law at the University of Liège after which she worked as a lawyer for 10 years. At the age of 30 she was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives.
Her father, Gaston Onkelinx, originally a Dutch-speaking migrant from Flemish Limburg to francophone Wallonia, has long been mayor of Seraing (near Liège) and member of the House of Representatives (1974–1987). Her grandfather, Maurice Onkelinx, was alderman and mayor of Jeuk in Limburg and lost his civil rights for some years after the 2nd world-war. Her older brother, Alain Onkelinx, has been a member of the Regional Parliament of Wallonia since September 2005. She speaks French and Dutch.
When Turkish terrorist Fehriye Erdal was sentenced to four years imprisonment by a Bruges court on 28 February 2006, it turned out that she had shaken off the Belgian secret service, which had the responsibility of following her since 23 February 2006 (Erdal had been under house arrest since 2000, and living in the same building as the DHKP-C secretariat). Both Laurette Onkelinx and Minister of the Interior Patrick Dewael have come under fire for this incident; the Christian Democratic and Flemish party (CD&V) and Vlaams Belang demanded the resignation of both of them on 6 March 2006.
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