Zakia Khattabi
Zakia Khattabi | |
|---|---|
 Khattabi in 2015 | |
| Leader of Ecolo | |
| Assumed office 23 March 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Olivier Deleuze & Emily Hoyos |
| Member of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region | |
| In office 7 June 2009 – 25 May 2014 | |
| Member of the Parliament of the French Community of Belgium | |
| In office 24 September 2009 – 2014 | |
| Member of the Chamber of Representatives | |
| In office 25 May 2014 – 25 May 2015 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 January 1976 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Belgium |
| Political party | Ecolo |
| Residence | Brussels |
Zakia Khattabi (Arabic: زكية الخطابي; born 15 January 1976) is a Belgian politician who is currently the co-president of the Ecolo party.
Khattabi was born in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode in Brussels to Moroccan parents.[1] She studied at Université libre de Bruxelles. She believes in political ecology and is a feminism activist which led to her joining the Ecolo party.
Political career and views
She became a member of the Brussels Parliament in 2009 as the local councillor for Ixelles, and then also sat in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. She later became president of the Ecolo group at the Belgian Senate.[2] Khattabi was elected, along with Patrick Dupriez, as co-leader of Ecolo during a party conference in Charleroi in 2015.[3] Dupriez was replaced in 2018 by Jean-Marc Nollet.
In a 2018 interview with Le Soir, Khattabi called for a "new model" for Brussels without separate Flemish and Francophone communities.[4] That same year following the killing of 14 women from macho violence in Belgium that year, Khattabi called for the recognition of femicide.[5]
Under Khattabi's co-presidency, Ecolo made large gains in Brussels in the local elections of 2018 to become the second largest party there.[6] In the 2019 federal election Ecolo doubled its share of the vote, and gained its biggest number of seats yet.[7] which Khattabi attributed to a rising "green wave" in Europe.
Honours
Belgium: Order of Leopold (21 May 2014)[8]
References
- ^ Libre.be, La (9 May 2009). "Au-delà des clivages". lalibre.be.
- ^ "Zakia Khattabi". Retrieved 30 May 2019.
- ^ "Zakia Khattabi et Patrick Dupriez sont les nouveaux co-présidents d'Ecolo !". 22 March 2015.
- ^ "Zakia Khattabi (Ecolo) veut réécrire Bruxelles en partant d'une page blanche". Le Soir Plus. 14 January 2018. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
- ^ "Déjà 14 femmes mortes de violences machistes en 2018: Zakia Khattabi veut faire reconnaître le "féminicide"". RTBF Info. 28 March 2018.
- ^ McNally, Paul (14 October 2018). "Local elections: Ecolo-Groen achieve big gains in Brussels region". The Bulletin. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
- ^ "Privacy settings". myprivacy.persgroep.net. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
- ^ "Zakia Khattabi". senate.be. Retrieved 30 May 2019.