Philippe Moureaux is a Belgian politician, senator, former mayor of Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, and professor of economic history at the Universit� Libre de Bruxelles. He holds the honorary title of Minister of State and is a member of the Order of Leopold II and the Order of Leopold. His first government post was a Minister of the Interior and Institutional Reform in the government of Wilfried Martens in 1980. Moureaux's name was attached to the loi contre le racisme et la x�nophobie of 30 July 1981 as he was then serving as Minister of Justice. Resigning from the Federal Government in 1993, Moureaux's coalition defeated the incumbent mayor of Molenbeek L�on Spiegels at the 1994 council elections. A key part of Moureaux's campaign, then and since, was the involvement of ethnic minorities in the campaign, Mariem Bouselmati of Ecolo being the first Belgian of Moroccan origin elected in Molenbeek. In 2004, as a senator, Moureaux submitted the law granting the right of foreigners to vote in municipal elections. However, Moureaux's attempts at revitalizing the municipality have not been successful. An example was the withdrawal of BBDO in June 2011 from the town. 

April 12th, 1939 in Etterbeek (Age 85)