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Pierre-Yves Dermagne
Belgian politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pierre-Yves Dermagne (born 30 December 1980)[1] is a Belgian politician who served as Minister of Economy and Employment in the De Croo Government led by Prime Minister Alexander De Croo between 2020 and 2025.[2][3] He is affiliated with the Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste).[4] He was elected to the Belgian Federal Parliament in the 2024 Belgian federal election.
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Early life and career
Dermagne was born on 30 December 1980 in Namur.[1] He is the eldest son of Madeleine Barnich and Jean-Marie Dermagne, who served as a lawyer at the Dinant bar from Rochefort.[5] In 2003 he obtained a law degree from the Catholic University of Louvain, and soon afterward started becoming politically active.[6] He was parliamentary attache to the Walloon Parliament.[7] In 2006 taking a seat as a provincial councillor for Namur and a municipal councillor for Rochefort.[8] In 2009 he joined Eliane Tillieux's cabinet as political secretary, before in 2012 becoming the first alderman of Rochefort.[8] Returning to Namur in 2014, he was elected to the Parliament of Wallonia.[9] In January 2017 he become Minister of Local Authorities in Wallonia, succeeding Paul Furlan temporarily as Furlan resigned following an affair.[10] He stopped being minister 6 months later, returning to the post of alderman of Rochefort and leader of the PS group in parliament.[10]
He won the 2018 communal elections in Rochefort with 2,109 votes over François Bellot.[11] In October 2021, he advocated for a reduction in the work week from five days a week to four.[12]
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