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- Philippe Moureaux was born on April 12, 1939 in Etterbeek, Brussels, Belgium. He died on December 15, 2018 in Brussels, Belgium.
- Moureaux's name was attached to the loi contre le racisme et la xénophobie (Law against Racism and Xenophobia) of 30 July 1981 as he was then serving as Minister of Justice.
- He was a Belgian politician, senator, mayor of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, and professor of economic history at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
- He held the honorary title of Minister of State and was a member of the Order of Leopold II and the Order of Leopold.
- In 2004, as a senator, Moureaux submitted the law granting the right of foreigners to vote in municipal elections.
- Resigning from the Federal Government in 1993, Moureaux's coalition defeated the incumbent mayor of Molenbeek Léon 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.
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