BRUSSELS (Reuters)
Anke Van dermeersch, a lawyer who
reigned as Miss Belgium in 1991,
said she
would pose in the nude for Playboy magazine if she won a seat in
voting for the European Parliament next Sunday.
A candidate for the Flemish liberal party VLD, Van dermeersch,
27, told Belgian television her pledge to strip off for the
U.S.-based monthly magazine demonstrated her intention to make
promises -- both personal and political - come true.
Playboy has acknowledged her offer, giving it space on its Dutch
Internet Web site.
Van dermeersch, who last year upset
other lawyers after making
court appearances in miniskirts and posing scantily clad for
another magazine, denied that she was the Belgian equivalent of
"Cicciolina," nickname of one-time Italian porn star Ilona
Staller who was elected as a European Parliament deputy in 1987
for a five-year term.
"(La Cicciolina) used the same marketing technique, maybe less
refined, but as for political contents, she did not do well,"
the Belgian blonde said.
Van dermeersch needs 200,000 votes to win
the seat under the
European Parliament's proportional representation system..
