Georges-Louis Bouchez (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ lwi buʃe]; born 23 March 1986) is a Belgian politician and lawyer.

At the same time, he worked as a legal assistant at the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix in Namur and later was appointed the law practice officer at UMons.

[6] He received 2,550 votes[7] and served as the Échevin for Budget, Finance, Employment and Sustainable Development for the city under Elio Di Rupo's PS-MR coalition.

He joined the Centre Jean Gol, a liberal think tank, and worked to organize and brainstorm new policy ideas for the MR.[5] At the Mouvement réformateur's 2016 policy convention, he fought against attempts by Louis Michel to get rid of compulsory voting,[13] advocated for a universal basic income,[14] increased taxation on robots taking peoples jobs,[15] proposed a second round of elections so citizens could choose from possible coalition options,[16] and advocated for the criminalization of those who praise the Nazi occupation of Belgium.

[17] During the 2018 communal elections, rather than run under the Mouvement Reformateur, Bouchez formed a new opposition electoral alliance called « Mons en Mieux !

[22] On 19 March 2019 Charles Michel, leader of the Mouvement Réformateur, named Bouchez as the party's spokesperson during the federal election campaign.

[31] On 10 December 2019 Bouchez was appointed Informateur by King Philippe along with Joachim Coens, leader of CD&V, in an attempt to find a workable government coalition following the 2019 federal election.

[33] This statement was denounced a few days later by Denis Ducarme, who described it as creating deep unease and regretted that the president of his party was “praising the extremist Éric Zemmour ”.

[34] The same is true of the Brussels Ecolo MP Ahmed Mouhssin: “With his outrageous speech questioning Islamophobia and supporting Éric Zemmour, he is polarizing society.

[35] On April 21, 2022, Georges-Louis Bouchez debated the president of the Flemish far-right party Vlaams Belang on VRT's “Ter Zake” program.

The choice of Georges-Louis Bouchez was immediately criticized as a breach of the media cordon sanitaire against the far right, to which all French-speaking parties in Belgium had subscribed.

[49] The article in question is a French translation of the Humo investigation, which, through the testimony of leading figures from the OpenVLD, MR and Vooruit parties, demonstrates that Georges-Louis Bouchez has close links with several sports betting companies, including Ladbrokes.

[50] Groen MP Stefaan Van Hecke points out that Georges-Louis Bouchez is “sponsored by Ladbrokes as a rally driver”, while Melissa Depraetere, president of Vooruit, highlights the existence of “links between the MR and the boards of certain gambling companies ”.

[50] On the other hand, Georges-Louis Bouchez is also accused of using his role as president of the MR to minimize the measures set out in the draft Royal Decree on the severe limitation of gambling advertising.

Melissa Depraetere describes this decision as “highly questionable”, given the exemption of amateur soccer clubs from these measures, such as Royal Francs-Borains, also sponsored by LadBrokes, of which Georges-Louis Bouchez is chairman.

[50][51] In January 2022, the newspaper Le Vif pointed out that Georges-Louis Bouchez had been in an illegal situation since the summer of 2019 by combining his position as president of the SparkOH!

[60] To put an end to the internal crisis, the party's executives decide to set up a “G11”, the aim of which is to create a forum for discussing decisions and ensuring a better exchange of information between the various players in the Mouvement Réformateur.

These suspicions concern the modifications of a user whose eponymous linkedin page states that he has been a “SEO consultant” since January 2024 at Onlyne, the company that handles Georges-Louis Bouchez's communications.

[71] In September 2020, the daily Het Belang van Limburg described him as a “master saboteur, the Sarkozy of the Rue de la Loi who sees himself as greater than he is ”.

[72][73] On January 15, 2022, Belgian Federal Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne declared in the Flemish newspaper Het Laatste Niews that “Georges-Louis Bouchez barks while we act”.

[79] Apart from his political career, Bouchez is the owner and chairman of Challenger Pro League Boussu football club Francs Borains.