Background
Professionally Jean Pede was a notary, in a long line of notaries, from his father"s as well as from his mother"s side.
Professionally Jean Pede was a notary, in a long line of notaries, from his father"s as well as from his mother"s side.
University of Ghent, doctorate in law, 194449, Bachelor of Arts notary studies. 1949, candidature in political, administrative and social sciences, 1950.
Local councillor, Bottelare, 1953-1976. Member, provincial council, east Danders, 1958-1965. Mayor, Bottelare, 1959-1976.
Member of Chamber of Representatives, Gent-Eeklo, 1965-1971. Senator, Gent - Eeklo, I97I-. Local councillor, Merelbeke, since 1977.
Mayor, Merelbeke, 1977-1981. Chair, Flemish Council, 1981-1985. Chair. Interparlementaire Commissie van de Nederlandse Taalunie (commission established by Dutch and Belgian governments for the furtherance & promotion of Dutch), 84.
Chair, study centre for the reform of the State, 1984-1985. Community Minister, Town and Country Planning and Internal Affairs, 1985-1988. Deputy chair, Flemish Council, since 1988.
Chair, Flemish Council, 1988. Chair. Interparlementaire Commissie van de Nederlandse Taalunie, 1988. Mayor, Merelbeke. since 1989.
Member, Flemish council commissions on cooperation, regulations of general business and petitions, finance and estimates. Member, Interparlamentaire commissie van de Nederlandse Taalunie. Member, Partij voor Vrijheid en Vooruitgang (Party for Reform and Freedom) party congress and party council.
Member, Partij voor Vrijheid en Vooruitgang (Party for Reform and Freedom) district federation. Chair, cantonal society. Notary, Bottelare, 1954-1981.
Honorary notary; Vereniging voor Opleidingsprogramma’s in het Buitenland ( VVOB, society for training programmes abroad).
He was time-long burgomaster of Bottelare (1959-1976) and of Merelbeke (1977-1982 and 1989-1994), and also Provincial Council member of East Flanders. He was a member of the Belgian Parliament:
from 1965 to 1971 as a member of the Chamber of Representatives,
These mandates made him automatically a member of the Flemisch Council and he was its chair from 1981 to 1985 and again a few months in 1988.