Sarah Schlitz

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Sarah Schlitz
Secretary of State for Gender Equality, Equal Opportunities and Diversity
Assumed office
1 October 2020
MonarchPhilippe
Prime MinisterAlexander De Croo
Member of the Chamber of Representatives
In office
October 2018 – October 2020
Personal details
Born (1986-12-07) 7 December 1986 (age 34)
Liège, Belgium
Political partyEcolo
Alma materUniversity of Liège
Occupationpolitician

Sarah Schlitz (born 7 December 1986, in Liège) is a Belgian politician from Ecolo. She is the current Belgian Secretary of State for Gender equality, Equal opportunity and Diversity in the cabinet of the prime minister Alexander De Croo.

Education and early life[]

Sarah Schlitz is born into a family with a political background and is the granddaughter of the former mayor of Liège, .[1] She studied at the University of Liège and graduated with a Master of sciences in Political Science, and supplementary masters in Urban Studies and Spatial Development.[2]

Political career[]

In Liège, Sarah Schlitz has been involved in grassroots community organizing focusing on ecological, social and feminist politics.[1] She chose to join Ecolo, rather than the Socialist Party of which her grandfather was a member.[1] Between 2015 and 2018, she was campaign coordinator at the ecological association  [fr], and from 2016 to 2018 she was co-chair of the Coalition Climat.[3]

In october 2012, she was elected to the city council of Liège as part of Ecolo.[4] In October 2018, she was reelected as a member of the citizen's movement Vert Ardent.[4] She resigned from the city council in September 2019 in order to focus on her work as a member of the federal Parliament.[5]

In the 2014 general election, she was came in second with 2.935 votes as a substitute candidate for Ecolo in the Liege constituency.[6] In October 2018, she succeeded , who resigned from parliament.[7]

In the 2019 parliamentary election, she was elected to the Belgian Federal Parliament with 17.728 votes as Ecolo's chief candidate for the constituency of Liège.[8]

Since 1 October 2020, she is the State Secretary for Gender Equality, Equal Opportunities and Diversity in the De Croo government.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Libre.be, La (2019-09-23). "Sarah Schlitz: une passion au service d'une cause". LaLibre.be (in French). Retrieved 2021-01-04.
  2. ^ "A propos". Sarah Schlitz (in French). Retrieved 2021-01-04.
  3. ^ julie (2016-06-23). "Toute première présidence féminine pour la Coalition Climat". Coalition Climat (in French). Retrieved 2021-01-04.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "Sarah Schlitz". Régionale Ecolo Bruxelles (in French). Retrieved 2021-01-04.
  5. ^ "Sarah Schlitz (Ecolo) dit au revoir à Liège !". DH Les Sports + (in French). 2019-09-05. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  6. ^ "Wahl 2014 - Kammer - Vorzugsstimmen Wahlkreis Lüttich -". wahlen2014.belgium.be. Retrieved 2021-01-04.
  7. ^ "Sarah Schlitz remplace officiellement Muriel Gerkens !". DH Les Sports + (in French). 2018-10-04. Retrieved 2021-01-04.
  8. ^ "Sarah Schlitz (Ecolo) aux élections 2019 : score, résultats et voix de préférence". sudinfo.be (in French). 2019-05-26. Retrieved 2021-01-04.
  9. ^ "New federal ministers and state secretaries take oath of office". The Bulletin. 1 October 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
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