Members of Parliament take the oath: More than 48 percent of women in the hemisphere in Brussels

The number of women in the Brussels Parliament increased from 43.8 to 48.3 percent. As you know, the Walloon Parliament is doing better If a bracelet. There, 49.3 percent of parliamentarians are women. In the Flemish Parliament, the number of women has actually decreased by four, according to a census The newspaperWhich means that 43.5 percent of the members of parliament there are women.

Groene, Ecolo and PTB have more women than men in the ranks of the Brussels Parliament. There are as many women as men in Vlaams Belang, Open VLD, Voruit, N-VA, Défi, MR and Les Engagés.

PS is the most masculine party, except for individual parties such as CD&V and PVDA. Fouad Anhedar’s team includes two elected officials and one woman.

swearing

On Tuesday afternoon, almost all parliamentarians were sworn in. They did so after examining the parliamentarians’ credentials and the Electoral Commission verifying the validity of the elections.

Only Foreign Minister Hajja Habib (MR), who is still on mission, and current Minister of State in Brussels Nawal Ben Hammou (PS), who was not present for personal reasons, have not yet done so. They will be sworn in with their (interim) successors on Wednesday at 10.30am.

24 years

The session was chaired by Bertin Mambaka Mankamba (MR), who, at 67 years old, is the oldest of the elected officials. He was assisted by the youngest representatives of each language group.

The youngest elected member of the French group is 24-year-old Mehdi Talbi from PTB. The youngest elected member of the Dutch language group is 29-year-old Iman Bilginani from Open VLD. according to If a bracelet The average age in the Brussels Parliament is now 46 years. This is one year higher than the average age in the previous parliamentary session.

Caliphs

The swearing-in ceremony was immediately followed by a number of changes, because the outgoing ministers will remain in their positions until a new government is formed.

For Groen, Stijn Bex replaces Elke Van den Brandt. For Open VLD, Martine Raets takes Sven Gatz’s place, while Vooruit Ilyas Mouani keeps the seat warm for Ans Persoons.

On the French-speaking side, Mustapha Akouz and Cécile Vancel replace Socialist Party members Rudi Vervoort and Nawal Ben Hammou. For Ikolo, Farida Taher and John Betsy could replace Alain Marrone and Barbara Trashti. Finally, Davey sees Giselle Mandela Malamba replacing Bernard Clerfayt.

These changes have no effect on the male to female ratio.