| Maxime Prévot | |
| Office: | Leader of |
| Term Start: | 26 January 2019 |
| Predecessor: | Benoit Lutgen |
| Office2: | Mayor of Namur |
| Status: | Incumbent |
| Term Start2: | 5 March 2012 |
| Office3: | Member of the Chamber of Representatives |
| Term Start3: | 20 June 2019 |
| Birth Date: | 9 April 1978 |
| Birth Place: | Mons, Belgium |
| Birthname: | Maxime Patrick Robert Albert Prévot |
| Alma Mater: | University of Namur |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Office4: | Member of the Parliament of Wallonia |
| Term Start4: | 28 July 2017 |
| Term Start5: | 7 June 2009 |
| Term End4: | 3 May 2019 |
| Term End5: | 22 July 2014 |
| Predecessor2: | Jacques Etienne |
Maxime Patrick Robert Albert Prévot (pronounced as /fr/; born 9 April 1978) is a Belgian politician who is currently the president of the party and has served as the mayor of Namur since 2012.
Prévot was born in Mons in 1978 to a middle-class family. He spent part of his upbringing in Luxembourg.[1] [2] Prévot studied political science at the University of Namur and then completed a law conversion course at UCLouvain before working for PricewaterhouseCoopers.[3] [4]
Prévot first became involved in politics when he joined the youth chapter of the cdH in Namur. During the 2006 municipal elections in Belgium, he was elected as a councilor on the Provincial Council of Namur. In 2012, he succeeded as Mayor of Namur. In the 2014 Belgian regional elections, he was elected to the Parliament of Wallonia as the number one candidate for the Namur constituency list.[5] [6]
In January 2019, former cdH president Benoît Lutgen announced his intention to step down as leader. Prévot entered his name in the leadership race and was subsequently elected as the party's new president with 85% of the vote.[7]
He was elected to the Chamber of Representatives in the 2024 Belgian federal election.
Prévot has been described as coming from the more centre-right camp of the cdH with some of his ideas being close to those of the Mouvement Réformateur.[8] However, he has also described himself as holding progressive opinions on some issues.[9]
Following poor results for the cdH during the 2019 elections, Prévot announced a plan to rejuvenate and reorganize the party, including updating its policies and changing its identity and branding.[10] In 2022, the party announced it would change its name from the cdH to .[11]