Pol Van Den Driessche (born 1959) is a Belgian ex-journalist, writer and politician. Van Den Driessche joined with the

Christian Democratic and Flemish Christian Democratic and Flemish (, ; CD&V) is a Flemish Christian-democratic political party in Belgium. The party has historical ties to both trade unionism ( ACV) and trade associations ( UNIZO) and the Farmer's League. Until 2001, the party w ...

party (CD&V) in 2007 and was elected as a member of the

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in the same year. He moved to 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 ...

(N-VA) after ending his term, in 2011, and became a co-opted senator for this party in 2014. In 2012, Van Den Driessche stood down as a candidate in the local elections in

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after being accused of sexual abuse. On 7 August 2014, he made the papers because he tried to edit or mitigate references to these accusations on his Dutch Wikipedia page. In the 2018 local elections he led the N-VA list in Bruges. He got elected as a council member, but his party suffered a big loss in the city.

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* 1959 births Ghent University alumni Living people Members of the Senate (Belgium) New Flemish Alliance politicians Political sex scandals in Belgium {{Flanders-politician-stub