Pol Van Den Driessche
Pol Van Den Driessche (born 1959) is a Belgian ex-journalist, writer and politician.
Pol Van Den Driessche | |
|---|---|
 Pol Van Den Driessche, 2008 | |
| Senator | |
| Assumed office July 2014 | |
| In office 28 June 2007 – June 2011 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 June 1959 Oudenaarde |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Political party | New Flemish Alliance |
| Residence | Bruges |
| Website | www.polvandendriessche.be |
Van Den Driessche joined with the Christian Democratic and Flemish party (CD&V) in 2007 and was elected as a member of the Belgian Senate in the same year. He moved to the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) after ending his term, in 2011, and became a co-opted senator for this party in 2014.
In 2012, Van Den Driessche stood down as a candidate in the local elections in Bruges after being accused of sexual abuse. On 7 August 2014, he made the papers because he tried to edit or mitigate references to these accusations on his Dutch Wikipedia page.[1] In the 2018 local elections he led the N-VA list in Bruges. He got elected as a council member, but his party suffered a big loss in the city.
