Sophie Rohonyi ran towards Emmanuel De Bock, outgoing group chief within the Brussels Parliament, and he or she gained. Elected with 79% of the votes of Défi members and activists, the previous federal MP takes the reins of a celebration that misplaced the elections on 9 June and must discover a new lease of life.
A feminine president for the second time
Since Antoinette Spaak, who chaired the FDF which grew to become Défi between 1977 and 1982, no different lady had led the celebration. Sophie Rohonyi thus turns into, on the age of 37, the face and voice of the Impartial Federalist Democrats. Born in Braine-l’Alleud, Sophie Rohonyi lives on the outskirts of Brussels in Rhode St-Genèse. A regulation graduate, she rapidly bought concerned in politics at Défi the place she was parliamentary assistant to Olivier Maingain between 2014 and 2019.
Sophie Rohonyi was additionally president of Défi pour la péripherie bruxelloise between 2016 and 2019. 5 years in the past, Défi gained a second seat within the Chamber and Sophie Rohonyi was sworn in alongside its then president François De Smet. Regardless of her greater than exceptional proactivity within the federal Parliament, she didn’t get re-elected on 9 June.
Sophie’s challenges
The brand new president of the Amaranth political celebration can have the tough job of respiratory new life into her celebration throughout her time period. A problem that didn’t persuade voters, stricken by inner tensions and which noticed the celebration publicly tear itself aside just some weeks earlier than the June elections. Sophie Rohonyi may also should redefine the id of her celebration on the political chessboard to shed its picture as a Brussels-Brussels celebration. “I’m conscious of the immense duty that the activists have given me and the immense job to be achieved. It’s collectively that we’ll remodel the sympathy that many have for our liberal and progressive undertaking into real assist. A necessity within the face of threats that weigh extra closely than ever on French-speakers. I’ll due to this fact attempt above all to unite all of the celebration’s important forces, in order that DéFI as soon as once more turns into a necessary political pressure that restores religion and hope in politics and the long run. Renewal is now.”she mentioned when the outcomes of the inner election had been introduced.
By selecting Sophie Rohonyi, the celebration’s activists see in her renewal but additionally entrust her with a celebration the place every part needs to be redone, every part rebuilt and maybe every part in another way.
