Roosmarijn Beckers

Roosmarijn Beckers (born 23 October, 1986) is a Flemish politician and a member of the Flemish parliament for Vlaams Belang.

Roosmarijn Beckers
Roosmarijn Beckers (2021)
Member of the Flemish Parliament
Assumed office
2019
Personal details
Born (1986-10-23) 23 October 1986
Sint-Truiden, Belgium
Political partyVlaams Belang (2004-2007, 2019-present)
Other political
affiliations		New Flemish Alliance (2007-2019)
Alma materCatholic University of Leuven

Career

Beckers is the daughter of former Vlaams Belang politician Marleen Govaerts and has described herself as coming from a Flemish nationalist family. She obtained a master's degree in history from the Catholic University of Leuven. Her thesis and area of study focused on the treatment of Roma gypsies during the Holocaust. She was a history teacher before working as an assistant in her husband's law firm. Beckers is married with three children.[1][2]

Beckers first joined the former Vlaams Blok party in 2003. In 2006 she was elected to the municipal council of Sint-Truiden for Vlaams Belang, but a year later decided to leave politics for a period due to conflicts within the party and because she considered Vlaams Belang's leadership to be misogynistic.[3] In 2019, she was encouraged to return to the party by Tom Van Grieken and because she felt disappointed with the New Flemish Alliance party which she had switched her support to.[4] In 2019, she was elected to the Flemish parliament for the Limburg constituency (nl).[1][5] In the Flemish parliament she focuses on matters related to education and infrastructure.[6]

She is also an opinion columnist for the blog site Doorbraak.[7]

References
  1. Parlement, Vlaams. "Roosmarijn Beckers (Vlaams Belang)". www.vlaamsparlement.be.
  2. Vlaams Belang wordt steeds vrouwelijker, Het Laatste Nieuws, 24 januari 2019.
  3. Vlaams Belang wordt steeds vrouwelijker, Het Laatste Nieuws, 24 januari 2019.
  4. Roosmarijn Beckers: ‘Vlaams Belang moet ook inzetten op gezond leefmilieu’, Doorbraak, 2 juni 2019.
  5. "Het Belang van Limburg". Het Belang van Limburg.
  6. Vlaams Belang wordt steeds vrouwelijker, Het Laatste Nieuws, 24 januari 2019.
  7. Auteursfiche Roosmarijn Beckers op Doorbraak.
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