Christine Defraigne | |
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.jpg) Defraigne in 2015 | |
| President of the Belgian Senate | |
| In office 14 October 2014 – 3 December 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Sabine de Bethune |
| Succeeded by | Jacques Brotchi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 April 1962 |
| Party | Reformist Movement |
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Christine Defraigne (French pronunciation: [kʁistin dəfʁɛɲ]; born 1962) is a Belgian politician and a member of the MR. She was the President of the Belgian Senate, in office 2014 to 2018.
In 2009 Christine Defraigne proposed a nationwide ban of the burqa. She has also called the burkini a "rejection of the freedom of women". Her proposal (together with Joseph Arens) to stop slaughtering animals without anesthesia (like ritual slaughter) resulted in a ban on this practice in Wallonia. She is a feminist.
In 2016 she was criticized for wearing a headscarf while visiting Tehran. Her decision to visit the country and wear a hijab was heavily criticized by Iranian born Belgian activist Darya Safai who accused Defraigne of condoning oppressive policies created by the Iranian government. She defended herself saying she "didn't do anything different from what other western prominent women do".
je suis laique feministe et je sais ce que j ai dit .
De senaatsvoorzitster kreeg de afgelopen week, vooral van Franstalige kant, heel wat kritiek omdat ze tijdens haar bezoek een grote hoofddoek droeg. Het werd de MR-politica, die feministe en laïque is, niet in dank afgenomen dat ze dat symbool van onderdrukking van vrouwen droeg.
Hoe kan je in hemelsnaam je eigen waarden verdedigen, als je moeiteloos meestapt in de extremistische logica van zo'n regime?
In een debat gistermiddag op de RTL, in C'est pas tous les jours dimanche, reageerde ze heftig. Met foto's als bewijs zei ze dat ze niets anders gedaan had dan wat andere westerse vrouwelijke prominenten doen.
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