Archive image: Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, son of former minister Herman De Croo. — © BELGA
About one in ten MPs in Belgium has a father or mother who also had a national mandate. This is evident from a new study into political dynasties by political scientists from the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), which De Morgen and Le Soir reported on Monday.
Source: BELGA
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The number of ‘sons and daughters of’ in the House reached the highest level since the introduction of single voting rights in 2003, at more than 15 percent. Even after the elections in 2014, the share remained high at 12.5 percent.
In the Flemish Parliament the ‘dynasty index’ amounts to 10 percent. In the European Parliament this concerns 5 percent of the elected representatives and in Brussels the dynastic impact is also quite low. “The influx of more new Belgians into Brussels politics offers a logical explanation,” researcher Jéremie Tojerow explains to De Morgen.