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Els van Doesburg (born 24 May, 1989) is a Dutch-Belgian politician of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) party who has served as a member of the Flemish Parliament since 2024 for the Antwerp constituency.
Biography
Van Doesburg was born in the Netherlands and moved to the Flemish region of Belgium as a teenager. She grew up in Schilde and attended the Sint-Jan Berchmans College in Westmalle before obtaining a degree in political science at the University of Antwerp.
She worked for the office of UNICEF in Antwerp and then in the healthcare sector for the Antwerp Hospital Network. She was then as a policy officer for the N-VA faction in the Chamber of Representatives until 2021. In the municipal elections of 2018, van Doesburg was elected as a municipal councilor in Antwerp. In the council, she sat on the committees for housing, urban and neighbourhood maintenance, greenery, animal welfare and health and senior care. For the 2024 Belgian regional elections, she was elected on the N-VA's list to the Flemish Parliament for the Antwerp constituency.
Van Doesburg is also an opinion columnist for the newspaper De Morgen in which she writes about social challenges.
In November 2021, she announced that she had become engaged to fellow N-VA politician Peter De Roover.
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- List of members of the Flemish Parliament, 2024–2029
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