Mark Demesmaeker
| Mark Demesmaeker MEP | |
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Portrait of Mark Demesmaeker after a tour of the Parliament building in Strasbourg.
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| Member of the European Parliament for the Dutch-speaking electoral college |
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Assumed office 1 February 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Frieda Brepoels |
| Member of the Flemish Parliament | |
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In office June 2004 – 31 January 2013 |
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| Succeeded by | Piet De Bruyn |
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12 September 1958 Halle, Flemish Brabant |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Political party | N-VA |
| Residence | Halle |
| Website | http://www.markdemesmaeker.be/ |
Mark Demesmaeker (Dutch: [mɑrk dəˈmɛsmakər]; born 12 September 1958 in Halle, Flemish Brabant) is a Belgian politician affiliated to the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA).
He was elected as a member of the Flemish Parliament in 2004 and reelected in 2009. In 2013, Demesmaeker left the Flemish Parliament to replace Frieda Brepoels (who became mayor of Bilzen) as member of the European Parliament. He was directly elected in 2014 to keep this position.
In 2006, he was elected to the City Council of Halle and became alderman. In 2012, he was reelected with the most preference votes, but a coalition was formed without his party.
Previously he had been a teacher as well as a television presenter for VRT and vtm.
Member of the European Parliament
Following the resignation of Frieda Brepoels, who was elected to the post of mayor in Bilzen, Mark Demesmaeker joined the European Parliament as N-VA MEP in February 2013. He was replaced in the Flemish Parliament by Piet De Bruyn. From February 2013 until May 2014, he sat with the Group of the Greens and the European Free Alliance (a group made up of ecologists and moderate regionalist and independentist parties with a centrist or liberal outlook).
In the European elections of 2014, Demesmaeker was re-elected with a resounding majority with 125 000 preferential votes. The N-VA received the greatest share of votes across the Flanders region and was able to send 4 MEPs to the European Parliament, the single largest amount of MEPs ever sent by one party in Flanders to the European Parliament. In June the party moved to the European Conservatives and Reformists group, where Demesmaeker is head of the N-VA delegation.
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