Gerolf Annemans

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Gerolf Annemans MEP
Official MEP portrait, 2014
Member of the European Parliament for Belgium
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 July 2014
Parliamentary group	Identity and Democracy[a]
Constituency	Dutch-speaking electoral college
Leader of Vlaams Belang
In office 16 December 2012 – 19 October 2014
Preceded by	Bruno Valkeniers
Succeeded by	Tom Van Grieken
Member of the Chamber of Representatives
In office March 1987 – 28 April 2014
Constituency	Antwerp
Personal details
Born	Gerolf Emma Jozef Annemans (1958-11-08) 8 November 1958 (age 65) Antwerp, Belgium
Political party	Vlaams Belang
Other political affiliations	Vlaams Blok (1985–2004)
Spouse	Monika D'hooghe
Children	3
Alma mater	University of Antwerp
^ Formerly known as Europe of Nations and Freedom during the eighth European Parliament (2014–2019).

Gerolf Emma Jozef Annemans (born 8 November 1958) is a Belgian lawyer, journalist and politician of the Flemish nationalist party Vlaams Belang (VB)^[1] and formerly of its predecessor, the Vlaams Blok. He has been a member of the European Parliament since 2014, and a city councilor in Antwerp since 2000. He served as a member of the Chamber of Representatives from 1987 to 2014, and as a city councilor in Brasschaat from 1994 to 2000. He was the former leader of the VB from 2012 to 2014, and led the Vlaams Blok and VB parliamentary groups from 1991 to 2013.