Filip De Winter
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Filip Dewinter (born 11 September 1962) is a Flemish politician in Belgium. He is one of the leading members of Vlaams Belang, a right-wing Flemish nationalist and secessionist political party.
Political career
In November 1987, he was elected member of the Belgian parliament. In 1988, he also became a City councilman in Antwerp. When the Flemish Parliament and the Belgian Parliament got elected separately in 1995, he chose to be a member of the Flemish Parliament (which deals with a lot of regional matters). In 2014, after 9 years in the Flemish Parliament, De Winter returned to the Belgian Parliament.
Education
He completed a journalist degree at the Erasmus College (Erasmus Handelsschool) in 1985
