Roosmarijn Beckers

Roosmarijn Beckers
Member of the Flemish Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office
2019
Personal details
Born (1986-10-23) 23 October 1986 (age 38)
Sint-Truiden, Belgium
Political partyVlaams Belang (2004-2007, 2019-present)
Other political
affiliations		New Flemish Alliance (2007-2019)
Alma materCatholic University of Leuven

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

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. ^ a b 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.