Nadia Naji (born 2 February 1992) is a Belgian politician and co-president of Groen together with Jeremie Vaneeckhout.

Nadia Naji
Naji in 2023
Party Co-president of Groen with Jeremie Vaneeckhout
Assumed office
11 june 2022
Preceded byMeyrem Almaci
Member of the Flemish Parliament
Assumed office
2 July 2024
ConstituencyBrussels
Personal details
Born (1992-02-02) 2 February 1992 (age 32)
Brussels, Belgium
Political partyGroen
Websitewww.groen.be/nadia-naji

Naji is of a Moroccan family. Before entering politics, she worked from 2017 to 2020 as a journalist for BRUZZ.[1]

From January 2021 until April 2022 she worked as a staff member for Brussels regional deputies Arnaud Verstraete [nl] and Juan Benjumea Moreno [nl]. In April 2022 she became an advisor to Elke Van den Brandt, minister in the Brussels-Capital Region government.

On 11 June 2022 she was elected party co-president of Groen, together with Jeremie Vaneeckhout.[2][3]

She was selected to be the main candidate for her party in the Brussels constituency for the 2024 Flemish Parliament elections.[4] She was elected a Member of the Flemish Parliament with 6122 preference votes.[5]

Naji married her partner of seven years on 1 April 2023; they had no guests at the ceremony in Karreveld Castle in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, and honeymooned in Scandinavia.[6]

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  1. ^ "Belgique : une Marocaine élue coprésidente de Groen" [Belgium: a Moroccan woman elected co-president of Groen]. bladinet (in French). Retrieved 31 March 2024.
  2. ^ "Groen heeft nieuw voorzittersduo" [Groen has a new chairman duo]. VRT (in Dutch). 11 June 2022.
  3. ^ "De drie grote evenwichtsoefeningen voor Nadia Naji en Jeremie Vaneeckhout als ze succes willen boeken als voorzitters van Groen" [The three big balancing acts for Nadia Naji and Jeremie Vaneeckhout if they want to succeed as chairmen of Groen]. Het Nieuwsblad (in Dutch). 13 June 2022.
  4. ^ "Naji, Van den Brandt en Van der Straeten trekken groene lijst in Brussel" [Naji, Van den Brandt and Van der Straeten lead green list in Brussels]. BRUZZ (in Dutch). 9 Dec 2023.
  5. ^ "Preference votes | Elections 2024". Federal Public Service Interior. Retrieved Jul 10, 2024.
  6. ^ Ver Berne, Kat (25 April 2023). "Nadia Naji over geheim huwelijk: 'Het was een ode aan de liefde'" [Nadia Naji about secret marriage: 'It was an ode to love']. De Standaard (in Flemish). Retrieved 22 April 2024.