Cieltje Van Achter (born 1979) is a Belgian lawyer and politician and a member of the

New Flemish Alliance The New Flemish Alliance ( ; N-VA) is a Flemish Movement, Flemish nationalist, Conservatism, conservative Political parties in Belgium, political party in Belgium. The party was established in 2001 by the right-leaning faction of the centrist-na ...

party. Van Achter is the daughter-in-law of former N-VA leader

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. She studied law at the

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and the Université René Descartes in Paris. She later studied International Relations at

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in Washington, DC. Since 2014, she has served as a member of the

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. In the 2019 elections, she was re-elected as leader of the N-VA list in the Brussels Parliament with 3,256 preference votes. The party retained its three seats and became the second largest Dutch-speaking party. Van Achter subsequently became chairman of the N-VA faction in the Brussels Parliament.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Van Achter, Cieltje 1979 births Living people New Flemish Alliance politicians Members of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region Women lawyers