Jeremie Vaneeckhout

{{Short description|Belgian politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Jeremie Vaneeckhout

| office = Party Co-president of Groen with Nadia Naji

| image = Jeremie Vaneeckhout 2022.jpg

| caption = Vaneeckhout in 2022

| country = Belgium

| predecessor = Meyrem Almaci

| constituency1 = West Flanders

| termstart1 = 18 June 2019

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1985|06|04|df=y}}

| birth_place = Waregem, West Flanders, Belgium

| party = Groen

| office1 = Member of the Flemish Parliament

| term_start = 11 June 2022

| website = {{URL|https://www.groen.be/jeremie-vaneeckhout}}

}}

Jeremie Vaneeckhout ({{IPA|nl|ˈjeːrəmi vɑnˈeːkɦʌut}}; born 4 June 1985) is a Belgian politician and co-president of Groen together with Nadia Naji.

Vaneeckhout started his political career as a staffer at Groen. First as a local organizer, afterwards as a staff member for representative Kristof Calvo.

He stood as a candidate in the 2012 and 2018 Belgian local elections in his home town Anzegem, and was elected both times to the town council.{{Cite web|url=https://vlaanderenkiest.be/verkiezingen2012/#/gemeente/34002/uitslagen|title=Anzegem | gemeenteraad | Lokale verkiezingen 2012|website=vlaanderenkiest.be|accessdate=Mar 18, 2024|archive-date=July 17, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220717110923/https://vlaanderenkiest.be/verkiezingen2012/#/gemeente/34002/uitslagen|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=https://vlaanderenkiest.be/verkiezingen2018/#/gemeente/34002|title=Anzegem | gemeenteraad | Lokale verkiezingen 2018|website=vlaanderenkiest.be|accessdate=Mar 18, 2024|archive-date=January 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200120205433/https://www.vlaanderenkiest.be/verkiezingen2018/#/gemeente/34002|url-status=dead}} Between 2013 and his election as a Member of the Flemish Parliament in 2019, he was a schepen in Anzegem.

In 2014 he was elected deputy party chair of Groen, alongside party chair Meyrem Almaci, with 60 percent of the votes cast by party members.{{Cite news |date=15 November 2014 |title=Meyrem Almaci nieuwe voorzitter Groen |work=De Standaard |url=https://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20141115_01377385|language=NL}} He was succeeded as deputy party chair by Dany Neudt in 2019.

In the 2019 Belgian regional elections Vaneeckhout was the main candidate in the West Flanders constituency for Groen. He was elected a Member of the Flemish Parliament with 7387 preference votes.{{Cite web|url=https://vlaanderenkiest.be/verkiezingen2019/#/kieskring/31005|title=West-Vlaanderen | kieskring | Vlaams Parlement 2019|website=vlaanderenkiest.be|accessdate=Mar 18, 2024|archive-date=March 18, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240318181645/https://vlaanderenkiest.be/verkiezingen2019/#/kieskring/31005|url-status=dead}} In 2024 he was re-elected for a second term with 7903 preference votes.{{Cite web|url=https://elections2024.belgium.be/en/preference-votes?el=VL&id=VLC31005&party=27|title=Preference votes | Elections 2024|website=Federal Public Service Interior|accessdate=Jul 10, 2024}}

On 11 June 2022 he was elected party co-president of Groen, together with Nadia Naji.{{Cite news |date=11 June 2022 |title=Groen heeft nieuw voorzittersduo|work=VRT |url=https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2022/06/11/voorzittersverkiezingen-groen/|language=NL}}