Idès Cauchie
Idès Cauchie is a Belgian politician. On 5 February 2014 he became a member of the Parliament of Wallonia following the death of Damien Yzerbyt.
Life
Idesbald Cauchie was born in Schaerbeek in north-central Brussels but grew up in the countryside. He trained and qualified as a vet after which, in 1975, he moved to Ellezelles, a small town in the countryside across the Franco-Belgian border to the east of Lille. He has worked for more than thirty years as a rural vet in the Wallon province of Hainaut.Following the example of his wife, he became a member of the local council in Ellezelles in 2000 as a representative of the centrist Humanist Democratic Centre ("Centre démocrate humaniste" / cdH) party. Since 2006 he has been the mayor of Ellezelles, which in administrative terms is a grouping of rural parishes with a total population of approximately 6,000 people. He retained his mayoral post at the 2012 elections.
In the regional elections of 2009 he was the first reserve candidate for the Tournai-Ath-Mouscron. In February 2014 Damien Yzerbyt, who had been elected to the assembly, died of pancreatic cancer and Idesbald Cauchie took on the position, taking Yzerbyt's seat in the Wallon parliament and on the parliamentary committees on which he had served. In the scheduled regional elections of May 2014 Cauchie's name appeared on the party list, but not high enough up on it for him to secure re-election.