Allessia Claes | |
Office: | Member of the Flemish Parliament |
Term Start: | 2019 |
Office1: | Senator |
Term Start1: | 2019 |
Birth Date: | 1981 11, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Hasselt |
Nationality: | Belgian |
Party: | N-VA |
Residence: | Scherpenheuvel-Zichem |
Allessia Claes (born 1981) is a Belgian politician and a member of the New Flemish Alliance.
Claes took part in elections for the first time in the municipal elections of 2012 in her hometown of Scherpenheuvel-Zichem and became a councilor for the town. She was the party leader and candidate mayor for the N-VA in the 2018 municipal elections in Scherpenheuvel-Zichem. She became party leader for the five-member N-VA faction in the city council. In those elections she also stood for the provincial council from 14th place. In the 2019 Belgian regional elections, Claes was elected as a Flemish Member of Parliament on the list of the N-VA in the Constituency of Flemish Brabant with 10,260 preference votes. She was also sent to the Senate as a state senator.[1] [2] [3] [4]