The prime minister of Belgium or the premier of Belgium is the head of the federal government of Belgium,and the most powerful person in Belgian politics.
Elio Di Rupo is a Belgian politician who has served as the minister-president of Wallonia since 2019. He is affiliated with the Socialist Party. Di Rupo previously served as the prime minister of Belgium from 6 December 2011 to 11 October 2014,heading the Di Rupo Government. He was the first francophone to hold the office since Paul Vanden Boeynants in 1979,and the country's first socialist prime minister since Edmond Leburton left office in 1974. Di Rupo was also Belgium's first prime minister of non-Belgian descent,and the world's second openly gay person and first openly gay man to be head of government in modern times.
The Federal Government of Belgium exercises executive power in the Kingdom of Belgium. It consists of ministers and secretary of state drawn from the political parties which form the governing coalition. The federal government is led by the prime minister of Belgium,and ministers lead ministries of the government. Ministers together form the Council of Ministers,which is the supreme executive organ of the government.
Achille Marcus Fould was a French financier and politician who was four times minister of finance between 1849 and 1867. A major figure of the Second French Empire,his politics have been described as "conservative by instinct,liberal by reflection."
The First Van Agt cabinet,also called the Van Agt–Wiegel cabinet was the executive branch of the Dutch Government from 19 December 1977 until 11 September 1981. The cabinet was formed by the christian-democratic Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and the conservative-liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) after the election of 1977. The cabinet was a centre-right coalition and had a slim majority in the House of Representatives with Christian Democratic Leader Dries van Agt serving as Prime Minister. Liberal Leader Hans Wiegel served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior.
Achille Van Acker was a Belgian politician who served three terms as the prime minister of Belgium between 1946 and 1958. A moderate from Flanders,Van Acker was a member of the Belgian Socialist Party (PSB–BSP) and played an important role in the creation of the Belgian welfare state after World War II.
Hubert Marie Eugène Pierlot was a Belgian politician and Prime Minister of Belgium,serving between 1939 and 1945. Pierlot,a lawyer and jurist,served in World War I before entering politics in the 1920s. A member of the Catholic Party,Pierlot became Prime Minister in 1939,shortly before Belgium entered World War II. In this capacity,he headed the Belgian government in exile,first from France and later Britain,while Belgium was under German occupation. During the German invasion of Belgium in May 1940,a violent disagreement broke out between Pierlot and King Leopold III over whether the King should follow the orders of his ministers and go into exile or surrender to the German Army. Pierlot considered Leopold's subsequent surrender a breach of the Constitution and encouraged the parliament to declare Leopold unfit to reign. The confrontation provoked a lasting animosity between Pierlot and other conservatives,who supported the King's position and considered the government's exile to be cowardly.
Johan Cyrille Corneel Vande Lanotte is a Belgian politician. He is a member of the SP.A,and became its party president on 15 October 2005. He handed down his leadership positions after the SP.A lost in the 2007 general election. Between 1995 and 2014,he served more than 13 years as Deputy Prime Minister,the longest period for a Flemish socialist after WW II. In his last term he served as the Minister of Economy,Consumer affairs and North Sea in the Di Rupo I Government. With the formation of a new Centre-Right federal government,which excluded his party,Johan Vande Lanotte returned to local politics in October 2014 in Ostend,where he took up his position as alderman for the economy and tourism at Ostend City Council. From August 2015 until the end of 2018 Vande Lanotte was the mayor of Ostend. During his political career he continued to work as a professor at the University of Ghent,specialized in Constitutional Law and Human Rights. Since 2019,he is a lawyer in the law office Van Steenbrugge in Gent. He was the initiator of the Turkey Tribunal held in Geneva in September 2021. Vande Lanotte also published one of the six reports of the Turkey Tribunal entitled "Crimes Against Humanity under the Rome Statute in Turkey Today"
The Liberal Party was a Belgian political party that existed from 1846 until 1961,when it became the Party for Freedom and Progress,Partij voor Vrijheid en Vooruitgang/Parti de la Libertéet du Progrès or PVV-PLP,under the leadership of Omer Vanaudenhove.
General elections were held in Belgium on 11 April 1954. The dominant Christian Social Party won 95 of the 212 seats in the Chamber of Representatives and 49 of the 106 seats in the Senate. Voter turnout was 93.2%. Elections for the nine provincial councils were also held.
Charles Michel is a Belgian politician serving as the president of the European Council since 2019. He previously served as the prime minister of Belgium between 2014 and 2019. Michel became the minister of development cooperation in 2007 at age thirty-one,and remained in this position until elected the leader of the Francophone liberal Reformist Movement (MR) in February 2011. He led MR to the 2014 federal election,where they emerged as the third-largest party in the Chamber of Representatives. After coalition negotiations,Michel was confirmed as Prime Minister of a MR-N-VA-OVLD-CD&V government. He was sworn in on 11 October 2014,becoming the youngest Belgian prime minister since Jean-Baptiste Nothomb in 1841.
Piet Vermeylen,was a Belgian lawyer,and socialist politician and minister. He was the son of the Flemish politician August Vermeylen.
Van Acker a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from (the) farmland". It is common in East Flanders and Zeelandic Flanders,while the agglutinated form Vanacker is more common in the province of West Flanders. Notable people with the surname include:
The Second School War was a political crisis in Belgium over the issue of religion in education. The conflict lasted between 1950 and 1959 and was ended by a cross-party agreement,known as the School Pact,which clarified the role of religion in the state. It followed a crisis over the same issue in the 19th century,known as the First School War.
Events in the year 1940 in Belgium
Events in the year 1945 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1954 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1955 in Belgium.
Events from the year 1946 in Belgium
The Van Acker I Government was the government coalition in the Kingdom of Belgium from 1945-1946,after the fall of Hubert Pierlot's 6th coalition government in the aftermath of the Second World War. The government,with Achille Van Acker of the Belgian Socialist Party as Prime Minister,served for four months;from the restoration of democracy until June 15,1945. Van Acker would form another coalition,which would serve for six months until the 1946 Belgian general election.
