Sarah Schlitz
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Sarah Schlitz | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Sarah in 2020 | |
| Secretary of State for Gender Equality, Equal Opportunities and Diversity | |
| In office 1 October 2020 – 26 April 2023 | |
| Monarch | Philippe |
| Prime Minister | Alexander De Croo |
| Succeeded by | Marie-Colline Leroy |
| Member of the Chamber of Representatives | |
| In office October 2018 – October 2020 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 December 1986 |
| Party | Ecolo |
| Alma mater | University of Liège |
| Occupation | Politician |
Sarah Schlitz (born 7 December 1986) is a Belgian politician from Ecolo. She was Belgian Secretary of State for Gender Equality, Equal Opportunity and Diversity in the government of the prime minister Alexander De Croo.[1]
Sarah Schlitz was born in Liège to a family with a political background and is the granddaughter of the former mayor of Liège, Henri Schlitz.[2] She studied at the University of Liège and graduated with a Master of Science in Political Science, and supplementary masters in Urban Studies and Spatial Development.[3]
Political career
In Liège, Sarah Schlitz has been involved in grassroots community organizing focusing on ecological, social and feminist politics.[2] She chose to join Ecolo, rather than the Socialist Party of which her grandfather was a member.[2] Between 2015 and 2018, she was campaign coordinator at the ecological association Inter-Environnement Wallonie, and from 2016 to 2018 she was co-chair of the Coalition Climat.[4]
In October 2012, she was elected to the city council of Liège as part of Ecolo.[5] In October 2018, she was reelected as a member of the citizen's movement Vert Ardent.[5] She resigned from the city council in September 2019 in order to focus on her work as a member of the federal Parliament.[6]
In the 2014 general election, she came second with 2.935 votes as a substitute candidate for Ecolo in the Liege constituency.[7] In October 2018, she succeeded Muriel Gerkens, who resigned from parliament.[8]
In the 2019 parliamentary election, she was elected to the Belgian Federal Parliament with 17.728 votes as Ecolo's chief candidate for the constituency of Liège.[9]
From 1 October 2020 to 26 April 2023, she was the State Secretary for Gender Equality, Equal Opportunities and Diversity in the De Croo government.[10]
She resigned from her position as state secretary due to use of personal logo in governmental projects.[1]
