PORTRAIT. Who is Frédéric De Gucht, the entrepreneur who stands up for his younger brother?

At the recent Open Vld party council, Frédéric De Gucht took a particularly fierce stand for his younger brother Jean-Jacques. “A liberal leader — after all, ex-party chairman — who is considering a switch to Lijst Dedecker, should not be rewarded with a second place on the Flemish list, should he?” he said about Egbert Lachaert. Who is the particularly successful ‘other son’ of Karel and Mireille? And what are his (political) ambitions?

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