About Magda Aelvoet
Magdalena Godelieve Hilda Aelvoet is a Belgian politician in Flanders. She was a provincial senator for Antwerp between 1985 and 1991 and a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for the district of Leuven between 1991 and 1994, when she also served in the Flemish Council. She was a member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999, where she was the chair of the Greens. Aelvoet was appointed deputy prime minister and the Minister of Consumer Affairs, Public Health and the Environment in the Verhofstadt I government between 1999 and 2002 and became a Minister of State in 1995. Aelvoet was a member of the Anders Gaan Leven, the Dutch-speaking green political party, and founded the party's chapter in Leuven. Aelvoet pushed Leuven's Green! list in the 2006 municipal elections, and became a city council member, but quit this post in September 2008 to focus on her family.
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