Jean-Joseph Chot

Jean-Joseph Chot born with Thuin on June 24th, 1906, deceased in Thuin on November 24th, 1991 is a Belgian Politician and a Walloon militant, pertaining to the Belgian Socialist party.

Jean Chot is doctor in right of the Universit3e libre de Bruxelles in 1929, lawyer at the Court of Appeal then opens his own Dining cabinet with in 1933. He will exert the lawyer functions there until in 1979. He becomes socialist of the Province of permanent Namur and appointed provincial adviser. He will be elected as co-opted senator of 1950 with 1965. With the Senate, he is Member of the Commission of revision of the Constitution and the Commission of Justice (Encyclopédie of the Walloon Movement Volume I, p. 271).

During the discussion to the senate of the proposal for a revision of the Beautiful Constitution Van - Merlot in the direction of the federalism (1954), it rather recommends a federalism by regrouping of the provinces. Jean Chot, president of regional of Dining on the Central committee of Walloon action since 1950 and member of the Standing Committee of the Walloon National congress, takes part in the congress of the Central committee of Walloon action in Namur in 1963 which will create the Managerial college of Wallonia, itself organizing of the Walloon Pétitionnement. In June 1976, it is reproduced on the list of the signatories of the Nouvelle letter in the king for a true federalism written by Fernand Dehousse, Jean Rey and Marcel Thiry which aims at founding a beyond going federalism of a simple regionalization.

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