{"id":4335,"date":"2025-03-27T16:11:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T15:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vooruit.comingsoon.site\/?post_type=nieuws&#038;p=4335"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:42:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:42:00","slug":"gerard-oosterwijk-vooruit-new-municipal-councillor-in-ixelles","status":"publish","type":"nieuws","link":"https:\/\/vooruit.brussels\/en\/news\/gerard-oosterwijk-vooruit-new-municipal-councillor-in-ixelles\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerard Oosterwijk (Vooruit) new municipal councillor in Ixelles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-f994ba16-af61-419f-9210-de2bd1408e0f\">Gerard Oosterwijk took the oath of office as a municipal councillor in Elsene on Thursday evening. He is replacing Karen Kaneza (PS), who is taking parental leave. Together with OCMW councillor Elena Gil Puchau (Vooruit), Oosterwijk wants to work as a municipal councillor towards a clean and affordable municipality where everyone always feels safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-2e77e0bc-3610-455b-a4ac-37f6b616b3b2\">Gerard Oosterwijk (40) is originally from the Netherlands but has been living in Ixelles with his family for 10 years. He was previously a member of the Public Centre for Social Welfare (OCMW) council in the municipality. He is one of the initiators of the \u2018I Vote Where I Live\u2019 campaign, which aims to register non-Belgian Brussels residents for the municipal elections. In the previous local elections, he was on the PS-Vooruit list in Ixelles to give a voice to both Dutch speakers and the many European residents in local politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-dc5782a7-d499-44f1-a56b-287b935fc91e\"><em>\u201cIt is a great honour to represent all residents of Elsene, including many non-Belgian inhabitants. Exciting times lie ahead and important decisions about what this majority with a socialist mayor will stand for. I can now defend our key priorities on behalf of our voters, such as safe infrastructure for pedestrians and cyclists, underground containers for cleanliness, and sufficient places in Dutch-language schools and cr\u00e8ches.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>says brand-new city councillor Gerard Oosterwijk (Vooruit).<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":4258,"template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-4335","nieuws","type-nieuws","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gerard Oosterwijk (Vooruit) nieuw gemeenteraadslid in Elsene - Vooruit.brussels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/vooruit.brussels\/en\/news\/gerard-oosterwijk-vooruit-new-municipal-councillor-in-ixelles\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gerard Oosterwijk (Vooruit) nieuw gemeenteraadslid in Elsene - Vooruit.brussels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gerard Oosterwijk legde donderdagavond de eed af als gemeenteraadslid in Elsene. 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