| Didier Reynders | |
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Belgian Minister of Finance
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| Assumed office 12 July 1999 |
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| Preceded by | Jean-Jacques Viseur |
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| Born | 6 August 1958 Liège, Belgium |
| Political party | Mouvement Réformateur |
| Occupation | politician |
Didier J.L. Reynders (born 6 August 1958) is a Belgian politician and a member of the Mouvement Réformateur (MR). He is Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance and Institutional Reforms in the Van Rompuy I Government, which took office on 30 December 2008.[1]
He was born in Liège as the youngest in a family of three children. He studied law at the University of Liège. He served as Chairman of the NMBS from 1986 to 1991. He is currently Minister of Finance since 1999 and Deputy Prime Minister since 2004, in the same year he also became the chairman of the Mouvement Réformateur.
Reynders led the MR to a victory in the 2007 election, with the MR becoming the largest Francophone party of Belgium. The Belgian King appointed Reynders as informateur, i.e. to start off the informal coalition talks for a new federal government.[2]
References
- ^ "20 March 2008 – Royal Orders. Government – Dismissals – Appointments" (in Dutch/French). The Belgian Official Journal. 2008-03-21. pp. 3–4. http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/mopdf/2008/03/21_2.pdf. Retrieved 2008-03-30.
- ^ "King picks Mr Reynders as "informateur"". VRT Nieuws. 2007-06-13. http://www.vrtnieuws.net/cm/flandersnews.be/News/2.728/070613_informateur. Retrieved 2007-06-13.
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