Philippe Moureaux

Philippe Moureaux , born with Etterbeek the April 12th 1939 is socialist senator Belgian, burgomaster of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, historian, professor of Critique history and economic history to the Universit3e libre de Bruxelles and specialist in the Austrian Netherlands.

Biography

In 1980, Belgium being then a country in the process of federalisation, Philippe Moureaux enters the government of national union Martens III in the capacity as Minister of Interior Department and Institutional reforms. It takes part for this reason in an important institutional reform.

It is this double characteristic of l' équipollence of the standards and the Exclusive competences which had brought in 1984 three professors of university, Misters Quévit, Tollet and Deschamps, to propose that Belgium becomes a confederal State. They made the point that the Belgian State was already partially confederal because precisely of the principle of the équipollence of the standards on which a member of Parliament and important minister as Philippe Moureaux expressed themselves clearly at the beginning of the Années 1990.

It raises at the time of an intervention to the Senate on the subject of the équipollence of the standards, the fact that within the framework of the relative debate in France in the future of the Corsica , a big part of the debate relates to the question of knowing if one can allot at a Corsican assembly the équipollence of standards.

Its name is related to the Loi against racism and xenophobia (law of the July 30th 1981) known as “law Moureaux”. It bears its name because he was the Minister for Justice when it was adopted. In 1993, Philippe Moureaux leaves the federal government, after having concluded its reform of the health insurance. It practiced the opening to the candidates of foreign origin on his list of burgomaster (with predominance PS, but including SP, PSC and CVP) in his commune of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean to the communal election of 2000 only, the single one elected of origin Morocco groin in this commune in 1994, Mariem Bouselmati, having been it on the list Ecolo. Since the last elections (2000) the list of the Burgomaster counts several elected official (be) of origin Morocco groin: Talbia Belhouari (cheffe of group, become appointed federal in 2004), Houria Houberri, Mohammadi Chahid (also appointed regional since 2004), Ridoin Hlimi, Mohammed Daïf (appointed regional since 1995, alderman since 2001), Jamal Ikazban (alderman since 2001) and Badia El Belghiti.

Wire of the liberal minister Charles Moureaux and a mother of the line of the Blaton industrialists, and brother of Serge Moureaux, Philippe Moureaux is the husband of the minister Francoise Dupuis.

The king Albert of the Belgians granted to him in 1995 the honorary title of Minister of state. Philippe Moureaux is holder of the honorary distinctions, Grande-croix about Léopold II and Commander about Léopold.

From the port of the moustache of the burgomaster, like much of socialist elected officials, of the journalists of Brussels called it with irony Flupke Moustache .

In 2006, Philippe Moureaux launches out last once to the mayorat of the commune of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean and organizes his succession.

At the communal level

Philippe Moureaux has with his credit:

safeguard of the green zones with the classification of the Scheutbos, the park Albert;
the creation of a house of nature, the rehabilitation of the Tobacco factory Ajja, creation of a House of the Cultures and Social cohesion;
a house of employment;
Concrétisation in 2006 of the startup at the time of a Contrat of district of a Center of companies places Flour mill and which offers 1.700 m ² additional in an old entirely renovated school building.

On the level of the Senate

It deposits in 2004 the private bill, become law, aiming to the granting of the right to vote to the communal elections to foreigners.

External bonds

Official site of the PS of Molenbeek
Philippe Moureaux, Socialist and man with a moustache
Interview of Mr. Philippe Moureaux Burgomaster of the commune of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean on Wafin.be, site of the Moroccan community of Belgium

Bibliography as historian

accounts of a coal company at the end of the Old Mode (the company of Redemont with Hatred-St-Pierre - Hestre) . Brussels, Palate of the Academies, 1969. In-8° under binding of editor, 248 p., boards except text, (“Royal Commission of History”).

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