Wim Van der Donckt

Wim Van der Donckt (born Oudenaarde, June 6, 1965) is a Belgian-Flemish lawyer and politician for the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) party.

Biography

Van der Donckt graduated with a law degree from KU Leuven. In 1995 he co-founded a law firm in Lier and in 2000 he became a deputy judge at the Mechelen Police Court. From 2002 to 2016 he was a member of the Council of the Order of the Bar of Mechelen, of which he was secretary, and from 2016 to 2017 he was also a member of the High Council of Justice (Belgium).^[1]

From 2015 to 2017, he was chairman of the N-VA branch of the district of Mechelen and he also became a member of the party's national party council.^[2] In the 2014 Belgian federal elections, he stood in third place on N-VA Chamber list for the province of Antwerp. In March 2017, he became a member of the Chamber of Representatives replacing Zuhal Demir, who became State Secretary in the Michel I Government.^[3] In 2019, he returned to the Chamber to replace Jan Jambon who resigned to become Minister-President of Flanders.^[4]

References

1. Fiche Wim van der Donckt, advocatenkantoor-mattijs.be.
2. Fiche Wim van der Donckt, n-va.be. 2017-04-06 at the Wayback Machine
3. , dekamer.be.
4. Bonheidenaars Vaganée en Van der Donckt op kieslijsten N-VA, Het Laatste Nieuws, 28 januari 2019.