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Place of Birth: Ghent, Belgium
About Daniël Termont
- Daniël Termont (born 19 May 1953) is a Belgian politician, member of the Socialist Party and former mayor of Ghent, Belgium.
- He was the son of shopkeepers who lived in Mariakerke.
- His mother's family was strongly socialistically engaged.
- In 1971, Daniel obtained a degree in accounting at the Stedelijk Instituut voor Handel en Secretariaat.
- He did his military service as from April 1972 until April 1973 and worked later on for ten years as a federal charge of LTA (Mutuality of Young Workers), the youth organization of the Socialist Unions at that time.
- Until 1980 he was also an information officer at the East Flemish Division (Bond Moyson) in the area Ghent-Eeklo.
- He has been elected to the city council since 1976.
- Later on, from 1983 until 1988, he was also director of De Ceder holiday centre in Deinze.
- He was the first director of the centre after a renovation which followed after many years of decline of the institution.
- Subsequently, from 1988 to 1995, he was secretary-treasurer of Bond Moyson, the year he took his first full-time political office as a councilor in Ghent.
- From 1995 until 2006, he was alderman of the harbour (Port of Ghent).
- Between 2001 and 2006 he was also alderman of festivities. After the municipal elections of 2006 he became mayor of Ghent.
- He was succeeded on January 1 2019 by Mathias De Clercq of Open VLD.
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