Paul Vanden Boeynants

Who was Paul Vanden Boeynants?

Paul Emile François Henri Vanden Boeynants was a Belgian politician. He served as the 41st Prime Minister of Belgium for two brief periods.

Vanden Boeynants was born in Forest / Vorst, a municipality in the Brussels-Capital Region. Active as a businessman in the meat industry, he was a Representative for the PSC-CVP between 1949 and 1979. From 1961 to 1966 he led the christian democrat PSC-CVP. He led the CEPIC, its conservative faction. In 1966, he became Prime Minister of Belgium; he stayed in this post for two years. Later in 1978, he led another Belgian government which lasted until 1979. He left politics in 1995, and died of pneumonia after undergoing cardiovascular surgery in 2001.