Guy Maurice Marie Louise Verhofstadt is a Belgian liberal and European federalist politician. He is a former prime minister of Belgium. He was a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Belgium from 2009 until 2024.
The Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats is a Flemish liberal political party in Belgium. The party has been described as centre-right and has smaller factions within the party that have conservative liberal and social liberal views. The party is a member of the Liberal Group,Renew Europe,and Liberal International.
Vooruit is a Flemish social democratic political party in Belgium. It was known as the (Flemish) Socialist Party until 21 March 2021,when its current name was adopted.
The New Flemish Alliance is a Flemish nationalist,conservative political party in Belgium. The party was established in 2001 by the right-leaning faction of the centrist-nationalist People's Union (VU).
Anne-Marie Cécile J. "Annemie" Neyts-Uyttebroeck is a Belgian politician and was a Member of the European Parliament for Flanders with the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats,member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe,where she sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Federal elections were held in Belgium on 10 June 2007. Voters went to the polls in order to elect new members for the Chamber of Representatives and Senate.
The 2007–2008 Belgian government formation followed the general election of 10 June 2007,and comprised a period of negotiation in which the Flemish parties Flemish Liberal Democratic,Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V) and New Flemish Alliance (N-VA),and the French-speaking parties Reformist Movement (MR),Democratic Front of Francophones (FDF) and Humanist Democratic Centre (CdH) negotiated to form a government coalition. The negotiations were characterized by the disagreement between the Dutch- and French-speaking parties about the need for and nature of a constitutional reform. According to some,this political conflict could have led to a partition of Belgium.
Alexander De Croo is a Belgian politician and businessman who served as prime minister of Belgium from 2020 to 2025.
Federal elections were held in Belgium on 13 June 2010,during the midst of the 2007-11 Belgian political crisis. After the fall of the previous Leterme II Government over the withdrawal of Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats from the government the King dissolved the legislature and called new elections. The New Flemish Alliance,led by Bart De Wever,emerged as the plurality party with 27 seats,just one more than the francophone Socialist Party,led by Elio Di Rupo,which was the largest party in the Wallonia region and Brussels. It took a world record 541 days until a government was formed,resulting in a government led by Di Rupo.
Annemie Turtelboom is a former Belgian minister,who served in the Federal Government of Belgium as a member of the Open VLD party,initially as minister for Asylum and Migration,and later Home Affairs and Justice. She has also served as minister of Finance,Budget and Energy in the Flemish Government. After leaving politics,she became the Belgian member of the European Court of Auditors,a position she has held since 2018.
The Di Rupo Government was the federal cabinet of Belgium sworn in on 6 December 2011,after a record-breaking 541 days of negotiations following the June 2010 elections. The government included social democrats (sp.a/PS),Christian democrats (CD&V/cdH) and liberals,respectively of the Dutch and French language groups. The government notably excluded the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA),the Flemish nationalist party which achieved a plurality and became the largest party. Its absence,together with the unwillingness of Open Vld to enter into an eight-party coalition that included the green parties,caused the government coalition to lack a majority in the Dutch language group. It was the first time that the Belgian prime minister had been openly gay,as Di Rupo became the world's first male openly gay head of government. Elio Di Rupo also became the first native French-speaking prime minister since 1979 and the first prime minister from Wallonia since 1974 and first socialist prime minister since 1974.
The Michel I Government was the Federal Government of Belgium formed following the 2014 Belgian government formation and sworn in on 11 October 2014. The administration was a centre-right coalition of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA),the Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V),the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats and the Reformist Movement (MR). The prime minister was Charles Michel. The government had an agenda of socio-economic reforms,especially through austerity measures,with its priorities being improving Belgium's economic competitiveness and reducing unemployment. It fell in December 2018 over the Global Compact for Migration.
Federal elections were held in Belgium on 26 May 2019,alongside the country's European and regional elections. All 150 members of the Chamber of Representatives were elected from eleven multi-member constituencies.
Flemish Brabant is one of the 11 multi-member constituencies of the Chamber of Representatives,the lower house of the Belgian Federal Parliament,the national legislature of Belgium. The constituency was established in 2014 following the Sixth Belgian state reform. It is conterminous with the province of Flemish Brabant. The constituency currently elects 15 of the 150 members of the Chamber of Representatives using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2019 federal election the constituency had 832,401 registered electors.
The De Croo Government was the Federal Government of Belgium,led by Prime Minister Alexander De Croo from 1 October 2020 to 3 February 2025. It acted in a caretaker capacity from the resignation of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo on 10 June 2024,following the 2024 Belgian federal election,until the formation of the next government.
Stephanie D'Hose is a Belgian politician who served as President of the Senate from 2020 until 2024.
Egbert R. Lachaert is a Belgian lawyer,politician and was party chairman of the Open VLD.
Following the 2024 Belgian federal and regional elections,Government formation talks began on 10 June. Incumbent Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has announced his resignation and his party's leader Tom Ongena has declared that Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats would not be a part of the next federal government.
Alexia Bertrand is a Belgian politician serving as a member of the Chamber of Representatives since 2024. Since 2025,she has served as group leader of the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats. She is the daughter of Luc Bertrand.
