Jean Defraigne


Jean Pierre Marie Olivier Germain Defraigne was a Belgian liberal politician and minister for the Liberal Reformist Party.

Career

Defraigne graduated as a doctor in law at the Université de Liège and was a lawyer and alderman in Liège. He was member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives and senator in the Belgian Senate for the PRL and was President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives of public work. In 1983, Jean Defraigne was appointed as minister of state. From 1989 to 1994 Defraigne served as a Member of the European Parliament, where he sat with the Liberal, Democrat and Reformist Group.