Patrik Vankrunkelsven
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Patrick Jules Maria Vankrunkelsven (born 2 May 1957), is a Belgian
physician A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Med ...
, professor of
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and
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. He obtained an MD and PhD from the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium. Founded in 1425, it is the oldest university in Belgium and the oldest university in the Low Countries. In addition to its main camp ...
(
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,
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).


Political career

He was president of the
Volksunie People's Union (, , abbr. VU) was a Flemish nationalist political party in Belgium, formed in 1954 as a successor to the Christian Flemish People's Union. The Volksunie defined itself as a big tent and catch-all party that combined support from ...
from 1998 until 2000, succeeding
Bert Anciaux Bert Jozef Herman Vic Anciaux (born 11 September 1959) is a Belgian politician and Vooruit faction leader in the Belgian Senate. He was one of the founders of Spirit (later known as the Flemish Progressives, then the Social Liberal Party, or ...
. When that party was dissolved in 2001, he initially chose the left-liberal SPIRIT, but eventually went to the VLD where he was senator from 2007 until 2011. He was part of the party's
left wing Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy either as a whole or of certain social hierarchies. Left-wing politic ...
. Patrik Vankrunkelsven has been mayor of
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from 1994 to 2006. At the end of 2009, he announced that he would leave politics to refocus on his medical practice and his professional status at the university.


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1957 births Flemish activists KU Leuven alumni Living people Members of the Senate (Belgium) Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats politicians People from Geel People's Union (Belgium) politicians {{Belgium-mayor-stub