Nadia Naji
Nadia Naji | |
|---|---|
 Naji in 2023 | |
| Party Co-president of Groen with Jeremie Vaneeckhout | |
| Assumed office 11 june 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Meyrem Almaci |
| Member of the Flemish Parliament | |
| Assumed office 2 July 2024 | |
| Constituency | Brussels |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 February 1992 Brussels, Belgium |
| Political party | Groen |
| Website | www |
Nadia Naji (born 2 February 1992) is a Belgian politician and co-president of Groen together with Jeremie Vaneeckhout.
Naji is of a Moroccan family. Before entering politics, she worked from 2017 to 2020 as a journalist for BRUZZ.[1]
From January 2021 until April 2022 she worked as a staff member for Brussels regional deputies Arnaud Verstraete and Juan Benjumea Moreno. In April 2022 she became an advisor to Elke Van den Brandt, minister in the Brussels-Capital Region government.
On 11 June 2022 she was elected party co-president of Groen, together with Jeremie Vaneeckhout.[2][3]
She was selected to be the main candidate for her party in the Brussels constituency for the 2024 Flemish Parliament elections.[4] She was elected a Member of the Flemish Parliament with 6122 preference votes.[5]
Naji married her partner of seven years on 1 April 2023; they had no guests at the ceremony in Karreveld Castle in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, and honeymooned in Scandinavia.[6]
See also
References
- ^ "Belgique : une Marocaine élue coprésidente de Groen" [Belgium: a Moroccan woman elected co-president of Groen]. bladinet (in French). Retrieved 31 March 2024.
- ^ "Groen heeft nieuw voorzittersduo" [Groen has a new chairman duo]. VRT (in Dutch). 11 June 2022.
- ^ "De drie grote evenwichtsoefeningen voor Nadia Naji en Jeremie Vaneeckhout als ze succes willen boeken als voorzitters van Groen" [The three big balancing acts for Nadia Naji and Jeremie Vaneeckhout if they want to succeed as chairmen of Groen]. Het Nieuwsblad (in Dutch). 13 June 2022.
- ^ "Naji, Van den Brandt en Van der Straeten trekken groene lijst in Brussel" [Naji, Van den Brandt and Van der Straeten lead green list in Brussels]. BRUZZ (in Dutch). 9 Dec 2023.
- ^ "Preference votes | Elections 2024". Federal Public Service Interior. Retrieved Jul 10, 2024.
- ^ Ver Berne, Kat (25 April 2023). "Nadia Naji over geheim huwelijk: 'Het was een ode aan de liefde'" [Nadia Naji about secret marriage: 'It was an ode to love']. De Standaard (in Flemish). Retrieved 22 April 2024.