Armand De Decker


President of the Senate
In office 12 July 2007 – 20 July 2010
Preceded by	Anne-Marie Lizin
Succeeded by	Danny Pieters
In office 14 July 1999 – 20 July 2004
Preceded by	Frank Swaelen
Succeeded by	Anne-Marie Lizin

Personal details
Born	(1948-10-08)8 October 1948 Brussels, Belgium
Died	12 June 2019(2019-06-12) (aged 70) Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Belgium
Political party	Reformist Movement
Alma mater	Free University of Brussels, French
Website	Official website

Armand De Decker (8 October 1948 – 12 June 2019) was a Belgian politician and member of the French-speaking liberal party Mouvement Réformateur (MR).

De Decker studied law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and practised law. He was also Mayor of city Uccle between 2006 and 2017. He died on 12 June 2019.^[1]

Political career

In 1981 he was elected for the Parti Réformateur Libéral to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives where he served until 1995.
In 1995 he was elected to the Belgian Senate, and re-elected in 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2010.^[2]
- From 1999 to 2003, and from 2007 to 2010, he was President of the Senate.
- Beginning in 2010, he was second vice-president of the senate.
He served as president of the council of the Brussels-Capital Region from 1995 to 1999.
From 20 July 2004 to 12 July 2007, De Decker served as the minister responsible for Development Cooperation in the Belgian Federal Government.
Until 17 June 2017^[3] he was mayor of Uccle.