Lotte Peeters

Peeters was born in 1993. She is the granddaughter of Walter Peeters, a former parliament federal member and the Volksunie party senator. Peeters obtained a degree in literature and modern foreign languages at the University of Ghent before completing a teacher training course. She then worked as a teacher of Dutch and German at a school in Lokeren.^[1]

She became active in politics after being elected as a municipal councilor for the New Flemish Alliance at the age of 19 in Hamme where she sat on the local committees for youth, culture and the environment. In the 2024 Belgian federal election, Peeters was elected to the Chamber of Representatives on the East Flanders list.^[2]