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Bart Albert Liliane De Wever (; born 21 December 1970) is a Belgian politician. Since 2004 he has been the president of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), a Belgian political party advocating independence for the Flemish region of Belgium within the European Union; he is also a member of the Flemish Parliament. He played a prominent role in the 2007 Belgian government formation and presided over his party's victory in the 2010 federal elections when N-VA became the largest party in both Flanders and in Belgium as a whole. Since January 2013 he has been Mayor of Antwerp, following the 2012 municipal elections. ==Biography== Born in Mortsel, De Wever attended the ''Katholieke Universiteit Leuven'' (KUL), graduating with a licentiate (equivalent of the master's degree) in History. As a student he was a member of the ''Liberaal Vlaams Studentenverbond'' (LVSV, Liberal Flemish Students' Union), the ''Katholiek Vlaams Hoogstudentenverbond'' (KVHV, Catholic Flemish Students' Union) of Antwerp and Leuven. He is a former editor-in-chief of the KVHV newspapers ''Tegenstroom'' (magazine of KVHV in Antwerp) and ''Ons Leven'' (in Leuven). He was employed as a research assistant working on the ''Nieuwe Encyclopedie van de Vlaamse Beweging'' (New Encyclopedia of the Flemish Movement). In 2004, he was elected as president of the N-VA with 95% of the votes. He was the only candidate that stood for the election. De Wever went through a rough stretch in 2006 when he accepted the conservative-liberal Jean-Marie Dedecker as an N-VA member, causing a split with the CD&V party. In order to reconcile the party, Dedecker had to leave. Although he was extensively criticised, the local N-VA leaders permitted De Wever to remain as N-VA president. In the 2009 regional elections, his party won an unexpectedly high 13% of the votes, making N-VA the overall winner of the elections together with old cartel partner CD&V. N-VA subsequently joined the government, with De Wever choosing to remain party president and appointing two other party members as ministers in the Flemish Government and one party member as speaker of the Flemish Parliament. Under his presidency his party gained around 30% during federal elections held in June 2010. De Wever himself won the most preference votes of the Dutch-speaking region (nearly 800,000). De Wever has visited British Prime Minister David Cameron at 10 Downing Street on a number of occasions. He is an avowed admirer of Edmund Burke and of his political philosophy. The historian Bruno de Wever is his older brother. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bart De Wever」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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