Jan Laeremans | |
Office1: | Member of the Flemish Parliament |
Term Start1: | 2019 |
Birth Date: | 23 May 1962 |
Birth Place: | Deinze, Belgium |
Party: | Vlaams Belang |
Jan Laeremans (born 23 May 1962) is a Belgian-Flemish politician for Vlaams Belang and a member of the Flemish parliament.
Laeremans is the grandson of People's Union Senator Leo Wouters. He studied Germanic philology at the Catholic University of Leuven where he became a member of Vlaams Blok and then worked as a high school languages teacher.[1] [2] Laeremans became a provincial councilor Flemish Brabant in 1991 for Vlaams Blok and later Vlaams Belang. He held this role until 2019 when he was elected to the Flemish parliament.[3]