| Roosmarijn Beckers | |
| Office1: | Member of the Flemish Parliament |
| Term Start1: | 2019 |
| Birth Date: | 23 October 1986 |
| Birth Place: | Sint-Truiden, Belgium |
| Party: | Vlaams Belang (2004-2007, 2019-present) |
| Otherparty: | New Flemish Alliance (2007-2019) |
| Alma Mater: | Catholic University of Leuven |
Roosmarijn Beckers (born 23 October, 1986) is a Flemish politician and a member of the Flemish parliament for Vlaams Belang.
Beckers is the daughter of former Vlaams Belang politician Marleen Govaerts and has described herself as coming from a Flemish nationalist family. She obtained a master's degree in history from the Catholic University of Leuven. Her thesis and area of study focused on the treatment of Roma gypsies during the Holocaust. She was a history teacher before working as an assistant in her husband's law firm. Beckers is married with three children.[1] [2]
Beckers first joined the former Vlaams Blok party in 2003. In 2006 she was elected to the municipal council of Sint-Truiden for Vlaams Belang, but a year later decided to leave politics for a period due to conflicts within the party and because she considered Vlaams Belang's leadership to be misogynistic.[3] In 2019, she was encouraged to return to the party by Tom Van Grieken and because she felt disappointed with the New Flemish Alliance party which she had switched her support to.[4] In 2019, she was elected to the Flemish parliament for the Limburg constituency (nl).[1] [5] In the Flemish parliament she focuses on matters related to education and infrastructure.[6]
She is also an opinion columnist for the blog site Doorbraak.[7]