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Nadia Naji | |
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Naji in 2023 | |
Party Co-president of Groen with Jeremie Vaneeckhout | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 11 june 2022 | |
Preceded by | Meyrem Almaci |
Member of the Flemish Parliament | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 2 July 2024 | |
Constituency | Brussels |
Personal details | |
Born | (1992-02-02) 2 February 1992 (age 32) Brussels, Belgium |
Political party | Groen |
Website | www |
Nadia Naji (born 2 February 1992) is a Belgian politician and co-president of Groen together with Jeremie Vaneeckhout.
Naji is of a Moroccan family. Before entering politics, she worked from 2017 to 2020 as a journalist for BRUZZ.
From January 2021 until April 2022 she worked as a staff member for Brussels regional deputies Arnaud Verstraete [nl] and Juan Benjumea Moreno [nl]. In April 2022 she became an advisor to Elke Van den Brandt, minister in the Brussels-Capital Region government.
On 11 June 2022 she was elected party co-president of Groen, together with Jeremie Vaneeckhout.
She was selected to be the main candidate for her party in the Brussels constituency for the 2024 Flemish Parliament elections. She was elected a Member of the Flemish Parliament with 6122 preference votes.
Naji married her partner of seven years on 1 April 2023; they had no guests at the ceremony in Karreveld Castle in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, and honeymooned in Scandinavia.
See also
References
- "Belgique : une Marocaine élue coprésidente de Groen" [Belgium: a Moroccan woman elected co-president of Groen]. bladinet (in French). Retrieved 31 March 2024.
- "Groen heeft nieuw voorzittersduo" [Groen has a new chairman duo]. VRT (in Dutch). 11 June 2022.
- "De drie grote evenwichtsoefeningen voor Nadia Naji en Jeremie Vaneeckhout als ze succes willen boeken als voorzitters van Groen" [The three big balancing acts for Nadia Naji and Jeremie Vaneeckhout if they want to succeed as chairmen of Groen]. Het Nieuwsblad (in Dutch). 13 June 2022.
- "Naji, Van den Brandt en Van der Straeten trekken groene lijst in Brussel" [Naji, Van den Brandt and Van der Straeten lead green list in Brussels]. BRUZZ (in Dutch). 9 Dec 2023.
- "Preference votes | Elections 2024". Federal Public Service Interior. Retrieved Jul 10, 2024.
- Ver Berne, Kat (25 April 2023). "Nadia Naji over geheim huwelijk: 'Het was een ode aan de liefde'" [Nadia Naji about secret marriage: 'It was an ode to love']. De Standaard (in Flemish). Retrieved 22 April 2024.