Guido De Padt (born 23 May 1954) is a Belgian politician and Senator[1] for the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats. Since December 2011, he also is the mayor of Geraardsbergen, an office he also held from 2001 until 2006.

He started his national career as member of the Chamber of Representatives. From December 2008 to July 2009, he was Minister of the Interior in the Van Rompuy I Government.[2] In the Leterme II Government, he was appointed government commissioner for the internal audit of the federal government.[3] In 2011, he replaced the socialist Freddy De Chou [nl] as mayor of Geraardsbergen. He got national media attention as strong defender to keep the Muur van Geraardsbergen in the Tour of Flanders. His party won the 2012 local elections in Geraardsbergen with 36% of the votes, while he got 25.8% of the preference votes. In contrast with other liberal leaders in Flanders, his popularity had grown.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Guido De Padt". senate.be.
  2. ^ "Composition of the Van Rompuy I government" (PDF).
  3. ^ "Composition of the Leterme II government" (PDF).
  4. ^ NWS, VRT. "VRT NWS". vrtnws.be. Retrieved 12 October 2019.

Media related to Guido De Padt at Wikimedia Commons

Political offices
Preceded by
Freddy De Chou
 Mayor of Geraardsbergen
2001–2006 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of the Interior
2008–2009 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Mayor of Geraardsbergen
2011–present 		Incumbent


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_De_Padt
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