Melchior Wathelet, Jr.
| Melchior Wathelet | |
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Melchior Wathelet (January 2014)
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| Minister of the Interior | |
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In office 22 July 2014 – 11 October 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | Elio Di Rupo |
| Preceded by | Joëlle Milquet |
| Succeeded by | Jan Jambon |
| Secretary of State of Environment, Energy, Mobility and Institutional Reforms | |
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In office 6 December 2010 – 22 July 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | Elio Di Rupo |
| Preceded by |
Paul Magnette (Environment and Energy) Didier Reynders (Institutional Reforms) |
| Succeeded by | Catherine Fonck |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
30 September 1977 Verviers, Belgium |
| Political party | Humanist Democratic Centre |
| Alma mater |
Catholic University of Louvain University of Southampton |
| Website | Official website |
Melchior Wathelet (born 30 September 1977 in Verviers) is a Belgian politician, Secretary of State of Environment, Energy, Mobility and Institutional Reforms, and member of the Centre démocrate humaniste (cdH). His father is Melchior Wathelet. He followed part of his secondary education in Dutch at a school in Bilzen,Limburg. After a degree in law from the Catholic University of Louvain and a Master of European Law from the University of Southampton, he became lawyer at the Bar association of Liège in 2002.
He started his political career in 2003, when he was elected as member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives where he quickly became group member for his party and second vice-president of the cdH.
He became secretary of state in charge of the budget in the Leterme II Government, and kept this charge in the Van Rompuy I Government and the Leterme II Government.
He became secretary of state in charge of Environment, Energy and Mobility in the Di Rupo I Government in 2010. After the 2014 elections on 22 July 2014 Joelle Milquet resigned to become minister of Lower education and Culture in the Government of the French Community. She was replaced as Deputy-Prime Minister and Minister of the interior by Wathelet.
On 6 February 2014 Melchior Wathelet - in his function as secretary of state in charge of Environment, Energy and Mobility - implemented a plan that reorganizes the departure routes from Brussels National Airport in Zaventem. One of the goals of the plan was to spread airplane traffic over a wider area. As a result of this plan, the majority of departing aircraft are routed over densely populated areas of Brussels. This plan – referred to by campaigners as the Plan Wathelet – soon became the object of controversy and led to a wave of complaints by residents affected by aircraft noise. A revision of the plan was blocked by the government of Flanders in early May.
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