Tony Van Parys | |
Office: | Senator |
Term Start: | 28 June 2007 |
Term End: | June 2010 |
Birth Date: | 21 June 1951 |
Birth Place: | Ghent |
Nationality: | Belgian |
Party: | Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams |
Residence: | Wondelgem |
Tony J.M.M. Van Parys (born 21 June 1951) is a Belgian CD&V politician.
Van Parys was first chosen to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in 1985, on a CVP ticket. He was chiefly Minister of Justice in the second Dehaene government (1998-1999).
Van Parys was part of the 1988 parliamentary commission looking into the "ways that banditry and terrorism suppression are organized [in Belgium]." Together with Philippe Laurent of the Parti social chrétien he wrote the main report that detailed the results.
He was elected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 2007.[1] Van Parys succeeded Erik De Lembre as chairman of the board of directors of Ghent's Arteveldehogeschool in October 2011.[2]