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Bart Albert Liliane De Wever, also known as BDW, is a Belgian politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Belgium since February 2025. From 2004 to 2025, De Wever had been the leader of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), a political party advocating Flemish independence. From January 2013 to February 2025, he was Mayor of Antwerp, following the 2012 municipal elections.
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Born 21 December 1970 · Q336599
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“Antwerp did not organise the deportation of the Jews, it was the victim of Nazi occupation ... Those who were in power at the time had to take tricky decisions in difficult times. I don't find it very courageous to stigmatise them now.”
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“I have taken sides against terror and against Hamas”
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“there is only one side to choose: that is the side of Israel, the side of democracy and the side of light. Against the forces of tyranny, against the forces of darkness. We know that they have a long arm: the long arm of Tehran, of Hezbollah, of Hamas, which reaches into the streets of Europe.”
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EA News Aruba: Minister Geoffrey Wever: ta anuncia destaho publico pa desaroyo di edificio di ex-Esso Lagoen como boutique restaurant
EA News Aruba: While the Government prioritizes rock and cement, Minister Wever announces a public tender outside his portfolio: Aruba lives a sad reality in its community
Legacy obituary: Michele Wever Obituary (2026) - Schenectady, NY - Albany Times Union
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Won: Japan with Foreign (June 2026).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Belgium (2025).
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Career landmark: preformateur (2024–2024).
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium (2024–2025).
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Career landmark: formateur (2024–2025).
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Career landmark: informateur (2024–2024).
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Awarded Pim Fortuyn Prize (2023).
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“Party of Belgium, when asked about the rise of both parties in polls, describing the latter as”
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And the subsequent Gaza war, De Wever called for the Belgian Army to be deployed to protect Jewish sites in Antwerp
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De Wever stated that he would rather enter a governing coalition with the VB than with the Workers' Party of Belgium, when asked about the rise of both parties in polls, describing the latter as "communists
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“A confederation of the Low Countries could be a reality the day after tomorrow. If I could die as a Southern Dutchman, I would die happier than as a Belgian,”
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Career landmark: member of the Flemish Parliament (2019–2024).
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Ultimately did not form an agreement
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“a subtle form of moral blackmail”
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Campaign: 2018 local election.
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium (2014–2019).
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Campaign: 2014 federal election.
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Awarded Sabino Arana Award (2013).
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Career landmark: Mayor of Antwerp (2013–2025).
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De Wever undertook a crash diet and lost 60 kilos
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Campaign: 2012 local election.
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Argued that the radical right-wing populist stances of the Vlaams Blok had harmed the image of the Flemish movement
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Career landmark: community senator (2010–2013).
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Career landmark: informateur (2010–2010).
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Scholar on Belgian politics Regis Dantoy assessed that De Wever politically positions himself "very ambiguously" between a charismatic populist and a mainstream image as a "popular figure who flirts with populism" in ord
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Career landmark: member of the Flemish Parliament (2009–2014).
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A photograph was released of De Wever attending a conference held by the French extreme-right Front National leader Jean-Marie Le Pen in 1996 at the Flemish National Debate Club in Antwerp
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium (2007–2009).
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When he accepted the conservative-liberal Jean-Marie Dedecker as an N-VA member, causing a split with the CD&V party
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Career landmark: member of the Flemish Parliament (2004–2007).
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Was elected as party leader of the N-VA with 95% of the votes, being the only candidate up for election
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“I had just finished my studies and I thought it was a unique opportunity to hear Le Pen, who was at the time a major figure in French politics. I am a legalist, with democratic convictions, but I have an Anglo-Saxon conception of freedom of expression: in a democracy, everyone must be free to express their opinion, even if it is an opinion that I hate. And I always prefer to have information first-hand rather than in a filtered manner.”
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Born 1970-12-21.
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there is only one side to choose: that is the side of Israel, the side of democracy and the side of light. Against the forces of tyranny, against the forces of darkness. We know that they have a long arm: the long arm of Tehran, of Hezbollah, of Hamas, which reaches into the streets of Europe.
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