Maxime Prévot

Maxime Prévot
Leader of Les Engagés
Incumbent
Assumed office
26 January 2019
Preceded byBenoit Lutgen
Mayor of Namur
Incumbent
Assumed office
5 March 2012
Preceded byJacques Etienne
Member of the Chamber of Representatives
Incumbent
Assumed office
20 June 2019
Member of the Parliament of Wallonia
In office
28 July 2017 – 3 May 2019
In office
7 June 2009 – 22 July 2014
Personal details
Born
Maxime Patrick Robert Albert Prévot

(1978-04-09) April 9, 1978 (age 46)
Mons, Belgium
Political partyLes Engagés
Alma materUniversity of Namur
OccupationPolitician

Maxime Patrick Robert Albert Prévot (French pronunciation: [maksim pʁevo]; born 9 April 1978) is a Belgian politician who is currently the president of the Les Engagés party and has served as the mayor of Namur since 2012.

Biography

Prévot was born in Mons in 1978 to a middle-class family. He spent part of his upbringing in Luxembourg.[1][2] Prévot studied political science at the University of Namur and then completed a law conversion course at UCLouvain before working for PricewaterhouseCoopers.[3][4]

Prévot first became involved in politics when he joined the youth chapter of the cdH in Namur. During the 2006 municipal elections in Belgium, he was elected as a councilor on the Provincial Council of Namur. In 2012, he succeeded Jacques Étienne [fr] as Mayor of Namur. In the 2014 Belgian regional elections, he was elected to the Parliament of Wallonia as the number one candidate for the Namur constituency list.[5][6]

In January 2019, former cdH president Benoît Lutgen announced his intention to step down as leader. Prévot entered his name in the leadership race and was subsequently elected as the party's new president with 85% of the vote.[7]

He was elected to the Chamber of Representatives in the 2024 Belgian federal election.

Political positions

Prévot has been described as coming from the more centre-right camp of the cdH with some of his ideas being close to those of the Mouvement Réformateur.[8] However, he has also described himself as holding progressive opinions on some issues.[9]

Following poor results for the cdH during the 2019 elections, Prévot announced a plan to rejuvenate and reorganize the party, including updating its policies and changing its identity and branding.[10] In 2022, the party announced it would change its name from the cdH to Les Engagés.[11]

References

  1. ^ Burgraff, Éric (29 October 2012). "Entretien avec Maxime Prévot". Le Soir: 26. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  2. ^ "Josy Arens (Attert) disagrees with Maxime Prévot's line". 25 June 2019. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
  3. ^ "Maxime Prevot". Retrieved 2022-03-29.
  4. ^ "Maxime Prévot". 20 October 2016.
  5. ^ "Maxime Prévot elected president of cdH". Retrieved 2022-03-29.
  6. ^ "Maxime Prévot". 20 October 2016.
  7. ^ "Maxime Prévot elected president of cdH". Retrieved 2022-03-29.
  8. ^ "Maxime Prévot, le plus libéral des CDH ?". 12 March 2015.
  9. ^ "Franstalige partij CDH wordt Les Engagés". De Standaard (in Dutch). March 12, 2022.
  10. ^ "Partij cdH wordt Les Engagés". Het Laatste Nieuws (in Dutch). March 13, 2022.
  11. ^ "Franstalige partij CDH wordt Les Engagés". De Standaard (in Dutch). March 12, 2022.

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