Jo Vandeurzen

Johan Maria Gerardus Vandeurzen (born 2 June 1958) is a Belgian politician, member of Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams (CD&V), a centrist Flemish Christian Democratic party.

Vandeurzen holds a Master of Laws degree from the Catholic University of Leuven.

He remained party leader until December 2007, when he became Minister of Justice in the interim federal Verhofstadt III Government.

[2] After the 2009 Flemish regional election, CD&V was the largest party and he received 69,223 preference votes.

When the 2009–2014 Peeters II Government took office, he became the Flemish Minister for Welfare, Public Health and Family.