Frédéric Erens | |
Office: | Chairman of Vlaams Blok Jongeren |
Term Start: | 2001 |
Term End: | 2004 |
Office1: | Member of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region |
Term Start1: | 2004 |
Term End1: | 2009 |
Office2: | Municipal councilor of Brussels |
Term Start2: | 2009 |
Birth Date: | 27 June 1968 |
Birth Place: | Ghent, Belgium |
Party: | National Front (mid 1990s) Vlaams Blok (2001-2004) Vlaams Belang (2004-present) |
Frédéric Erens (born 27 June 1968 in Ghent, Belgium) is a Belgian politician affiliated to the Vlaams Belang party.
Erens worked as an insurance broker before entering politics. He was originally a member of the French-speaking Belgian National Front party founded by Daniel Féret.[1] In the mid 1990s, he switched to the Flemish Vlaams Blok party and was chairman of the young wing, the Vlaams Blok Jongeren from 2001 to 2004.[2]
From 2004 to 2009, Erens served as a member of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region for Vlaams Belang (VB).[3] From 2009 he also served as a municipal councilor in Brussels. In 2012, he became leader of the VB's local chapter in Brussels.[4] In 2013, he filed an official complaint against the Brussels based magazine De Brusseleir which had allowed all other Belgian parties to express their opinions in the run-up to local elections in articles, but had excluded Vlaams Belang.[5]