Pascal Smet

Career

‘At 18, I got the political bug: it was the missile crisis and I went to demonstrate against placing US nuclear missiles in Europe.’

Ambition for Brussels

First, Pascal was an SP councillor in Beveren for a time and a provincial councillor in East Flanders. In the early 1990s, he moved to Brussels and worked at the commissariat general for refugees.

In 2003, he returned to active politics as Brussels' Secretary of State for Mobility. Above all, Brussels needed to show more ambition. A year later, he became Minister of Mobility and Public Works in the Brussels government. In 2009, the Brussels sp.a entered the opposition and Pascal became Minister of Education, Youth, Equal Opportunities and Brussels in the Flemish government.

Dreams for Brussels

In the following legislature from 2014 to 2019, he was minister of Mobility and Public Works. He gave shape to his dream for sustainable urban development by redistributing public space and creating more space for better public transport, cycle paths and pedestrian traffic.

n 2019, Pascal became Secretary of State of the Brussels Capital Region for Urban Planning and Heritage, European and International Relations, Foreign Trade and Fire Fighting and Emergency Medical Aid. Today, Pascal remains committed to our city as a Brussels MP and is also group leader of Vooruit.Brussels.

His ambition: to give Brussels a face and put it on the international map as the cosmopolitan, creative and enterprising metropolis it is.