Johan Weyts (9 June 1939 – 20 May 2021) was a Belgian Christian Democrat politician who sat in the Belgian Senate from 1987 to 1999.
[1][2] Born in Mechelen, Weyts had a doctorate in law from Ghent University.
[2] His parliamentary questions mostly related to finance, transport and fisheries.
[2] He was also a member of the Vlaamse Raad from 1988, and sat in the Flemish Parliament from 1999 to 2004.
[3] In 1999 he risked expulsion from his party for supporting far-right positions of Vlaams Blok,[4] and in 2004 there were renewed calls for his expulsion when it emerged he was vice-chair of a committee to prevent "foreigners" from voting that had been set up by Vlaams Blok.