Yves Camille Desired Leterme , born the October 6th 1960 with Wervik, of Walloon father and Flemish mother , is a Belgian Politician member of CD&V. Married and father of three children, it is laid off in Droit and Political sciences.
Biography
Yves Leterme, perfectly bilingual thanks to his French-speaking father and his Dutch-speaking mother , began his career like senior official, being of 1987 with 1989 listener near the Court of Auditors.Christian Democrat, it starts his political career in its Flanders-Western province of , before being elected with the federal Parlement in 1999. It sits then in the opposition. Its party remains there after the elections of 2003, and Yves Leterme takes the direction of it. In 2004, after the victory with the regional elections, it becomes Minister-president and Minister for the Agriculture and the Fishing of the Flemish Région, carrying out a coalition which gathers also the Socialists, the liberals and the Nieuw-Vlaamse alliantie, left independence.
In June 2007, it gains the federal legislative elections. Emblematic figure in Flanders, it causes during the countryside the polemic by a certain number of interventions of Community and institutional nature very criticized in French-speaking Belgium. He is judged " arrogant" , " little organisé" , very " flamand" , " little diplomate" and of time to other " incompétent".
Yves Leterme has reputation of a serious and sober, dull man according to his detractors. Father of three children, it shares with many his compatriots the passion of the Vélo and the beers Trappists.
Federal elections of 2007
The speech of Yves Leterme allures many voters and its party, the CD&V, combined with the Flemish independence party N-VA, gains high the hand the elections, removing 30 seats out of 150 with the Room and 9 (+5 cooptés/de community) on 71 with the Senate. Yves Leterme, candidate with the Senate, obtained: 796521 voice preferably.
The July 15th 2007, the King Albert II instructed Yves Leterme to form a government.
August 23rd, 2007, he asks the King to be deprived of his mission of formation of the new Belgian government, this last accepts the resignation.
September 29th, 2007, after the mission of Hermann Van Rompuy as explorer and the handing-over of his report/ratio to the King, Yves Leterme takes again the mission of trainer, assisted initially by Hermann Van Rompuy who had undertaken to explore the tracks of institutional solution, node at the origin of the first resignation of the trainer.
The December 1st 2007, Yves Leterme presents his resignation to the King of its function of trainer following the blocking of the negotiations.
Controversies
Interview with Release
The August 17th 2006, during an interview to the French daily newspaper Release , it declared, in connection with the French-speaking alive in the common to facilities:But apparently the French-speaking people are not in intellectual state to learn Dutch, from where prolongation of this statute of exception.
According to him, the only things common to the Belgians are “the King, the team of foot, certain beers. On its side, Isabelle Lasting, the federal secretary of the party Ecolo estimates that Yves Leterme “is hardly any more distinguished from the Vlaams Belang . The leader-writer of the Gazet van Antwerpen written, for example: “Beyond the irony, the remarks of Yves Leterme contain much good sense. ”
Several politicians of Brussels Dutch-speaking rose against these declarations, of which Pascal Smet (Minister for the sp.a), Guy Vanhengel (minister VLD) and also Georges De Smul and Lieve Lippens (of the CD&V like Yves Leterme).
The August 20th 2006, during the fifth edition of the Guard of Yser to Steenstrate (demonstration organized by Flemish nationalists), Johan Vanslambrouck, president of ASBL Ijzerwake rented the declarations of Yves Leterme.
The August 21st 2006, two French-speaking citizens members of the cdH (Jean-François Thayer, candidate with the communal elections of 2006 on the Cape-Woluwe list, and Yvan Verougstraete, old to advise communal) deposited a complaint on the basis of Loi against racism and xenophobia known as “law Moureaux” in its opposition near the police force to Woluwe-Saint-Lambert. This complaint is especially symbolic system since Yves Leterme profits from an immunity as a Minister-president of the Flemish Area.
The August 26th 2006, Olivier Maingain, the president of FDF deposits another complaint against Yves Leterme near the General prosecutor. Olivier Maingain thinks that four possible criminal charges could be retained: incentive with hatred and discrimination, slandering and calumny, offense with the person of the King and also racism and discrimination.
The August 28th 2006, in answer to criticisms of the French-speaking persons in charge, Yves Leterme rétorque in the Dutch-speaking press: The French-speaking political personalities which do not know Dutch but who defends a pro-Belgium speech are absolutely little crédibles.
Extract (appeared in the Evening of the 10/14/2006) of the book of Filip Rogiers, Leterme with the challenge , Editions Worse Luc, October 2006): As I have many family ties in Wallonia, I do not have, contrary to much of my colleagues, to have an idea of the other area of the country starting from the media. I have cousins and cousins in the Walloon Brabant and in Liege. I recently learned that I was a distance relative of Jacques Brel. Brel lived Zandvoorde. (...) One of my cousins leads the Ecolo list to Mouscron. His/her parents live with five kilometers from there, in Flanders. In France, another cousin was candidate on the list RPR of Jacques Chirac.
Marianne Leterme, his/her cousin, was indeed presented in the form of a chief candidate Ecolo to Mouscron and considers his name as an advantage while expressing that Yves Leterme does not think really only it says compared to the French-speaking people. For it, it is not separatist and does not have really so radical ideas.
However, the fears caused by its remarks and the very difficult negotiations in order to form the next government are at the origin of articles and chronicles diffused in the French media announcing the imminent end of Belgium (Alexandre Adler on France Culture: “Perhaps this is Leterme of Belgium”).
The national anthem
The July 21st 2007, then occupied forming its government, a journalist of RTBF request in Yves Leterme why this day is the national festival of Belgium. It is unable to answer and will go even until entonner the Marseillaise when one asks him to sing Brabançonne , national anthem of Belgium, causing many reactions among the Belgian political community. The following day, Mr. Leterme in an answer to an interview on television VTM defended himself in the following way: " I do not want to react to these silly things. I deal with things much more important. I think that they want to make me wrong. That which makes me wrong will undergo the consequences early or tard" of it; . These threatening words in the mouth of one had a presentiment of Prime Minister and concerning the press of its country, were noticed by the French-speaking Belgian press.
Internal bond
External bond
- Official site of Yves Leterme
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