Wouter Raskin

{{Short description|Belgian politician (born 1972)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Wouter Raskin

|office = Member of the Chamber of Representatives

|image = 11.25 副總統接見「比利時聯邦眾議員暨區議員訪問團」 (49120370728).jpg

|caption = Wouter Raskin in 2019

|term_start = 2014

|term_end =

|birth_date = 1972

|birth_place = Bilzen

|nationality = Belgian

|citizenship = Belgium

|party = New Flemish Alliance (N-VA)

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Wouter Raskin (born 4 January 1972, in Bilzen) is a Belgian-Flemish politician and a member of the New Flemish Alliance party.{{cite web |url=http://www.dekamer.be/kvvcr/showpage.cfm?section=%2Fdepute&language=nl&rightmenu=right_depute&cfm=cvview54.cfm%3Fkey%3D06498&lactivity=54 |title=[N] de Belgische Kamer van volksvertegenwoordigers |website=www.dekamer.be |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923225939/http://www.dekamer.be/kvvcr/showpage.cfm?section=%2Fdepute&language=nl&rightmenu=right_depute&cfm=cvview54.cfm%3Fkey%3D06498&lactivity=54 |archive-date=23 September 2015 |url-status=dead}}

Biography

Raskin was born in Bilzen and studied economics at Hasselt University. He then worked as a coordinator for a social economic company in Sint-Truiden and became an advisor to the N-VA in 2010.{{Cite web|url=https://www.n-va.be/wie-is-wie/wouter-raskin|title=Wouter Raskin|date=February 7, 2014|website=Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie (N-VA)}} In the 2014 Belgian federal election, he was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for the Limburg constituency.[https://archive.today/20150711233205/http://asp.hbvl.be/Limburg/3740/artikel.asp?art=%7B25ED5515-05B2-4B6F-AC4A-D19D32F9354A%7D] In 2019, he was re-elected to the Chamber on second place on the Limburg list.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hbvl.be/cnt/dmf20190118_04110970|title=Raskin en Grosemans op twee bij N-VA, Peter Luykx en Werner Janssen wellicht aan de kant geschoven|website=www.hbvl.be}}

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