Isabelle Simonis

{{Short description|Belgian politician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}}

{{BLP sources|date=July 2010}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Isabelle Simonis

| office = President of the Parliament of the French Community

| term_start = 19 July 2004

| term_end = 27 October 2004

| predecessor = Freddy Deghilage

| successor = Jean-François Istasse

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|3|4|df=y}}

| birth_place = Ougrée, Belgium

| death_date =

| death_place =

| nationality = Belgian

| party = Socialist Party

| image = Isabelle Simonis EYCS 23-11-2015 (cropped).jpg

}}

Isabelle Simonis (born 4 March 1967) is a Belgian politician from the Socialist Party.

Simonis studied communication, and she was active in the socialist women's rights movement.

Political career

  • 2003-2004: Secretary of state for family and persons with a handicap
  • 2004: Chairperson of the Parliament of the French Community. She had to resign after a scandal about the use of public funds for projects with the objective to obtain the votes of migrants for her party{{cite web|url=http://allochtone.skynetblogs.be/archive/2004/10/23/attirer-le-vote-des-etrangers-vers-le-ps.html|title=attirer le vote des étrangers vers le PS?|publisher=|access-date=12 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304073845/http://allochtone.skynetblogs.be/archive/2004/10/23/attirer-le-vote-des-etrangers-vers-le-ps.html|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}
  • 2004–present: Member of the Walloon Parliament and the Parliament of the French Community
  • 2007–present: Mayor of Flémalle

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