Jacques Simonet
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Jacques Simonet (born 21 December 1963 in Watermael-Boitsfort) is a Belgian politician and former Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region. He is the son of Henri Simonet, former Socialist Party minister and for many years mayor of Anderlecht. His mother Marie-Louise Angenet taught at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
He studied law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He married Véronica Labe, a notary, in 1988; they have two children. He entered politics as a student activist in the Socialist Party, but later became a member of the Reformist Movement (MR).
Simonet has served as mayor of Anderlecht since 2000 and as Minister-President of Brussels in 1998–1999. He became Minister-President for the second time on the resignation Daniel Ducarme following revelations of Ducarme's unpaid taxes in the newspaper Vers L'Avenir. He led the MR list in the elections of June 2004, losing to the the Socialists led by former Minister-President Charles Picqué.
Simonet was hospitalised on 9 September 2006 as the result of a pulmonary embolism. In the elections which followed on 8 October 2006 he was re-elected as mayor of Anderlecht with 8500 personal preference votes.
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| Preceded by Charles Picqué |
Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region 1999–2000 |
Succeeded by François-Xavier de Donnéa |
| Preceded by Daniel Ducarme |
Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region 2004 |
Succeeded by Charles Picqué |
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