Joke Schauvliege

Joke Schauvliege (born in Ghent on 16 March 1970) is a Belgian politician from Flanders.

During the 2009 Flemish elections, she won the highest number of preference votes in the province of East Flanders.

[1] In July 2009, she took office as Minister for Environment, Nature and Culture in the Flemish Cabinet (Peeters II).

[2] After the Flemish elections in 2014, she became minister for Town and Country Planning, Environment, Nature and Agriculture.

A few days later, in a speech to the General Farmers Syndicate on 2 February 2019, she described this and other demonstrations as a "set up game" and claimed that the state security agency had informed her about the instigators of the protests.