Jean-Marie Louis Dedecker is a Belgian politician.
Jacky Lafon is an Flemish actress known for playing one of the lead fictional characters—Rita Van den Bossche—in the television series Familie that aired its first episode on the Flemish television channel VTM,in the Dutch language,on 30 December 1991. Familie remains a popular soap opera,airing its 1,000th episode in 1996 and as of 2016 is in its 25th year of production.
The Belgian provincial,municipal and district elections of 2006 took place on Sunday 8 October 2006. The electors have elected the municipal councillors of 589 cities and towns as well as the ten provincial councils. The voters in the town of Antwerp have also been able to vote for the city's district councils. In seven Flemish municipalities with a special language statute and in the Walloon municipality of Comines-Warneton the aldermen and the members of the OCMW/CPAS council have also been directly elected.
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.
Bart Albert Liliane De Wever is a Belgian politician. Since 2004 De Wever has been the leader of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA),a political party advocating for the independence of Flanders. He is also a member of the Chamber of Representatives. De Wever played a prominent role in the 2007 Belgian government formation and presided over his party's victory in the 2010 federal elections when N-VA became the largest party in both Flanders and in Belgium as a whole.
Matthias Diependaele is a Belgian politician affiliated to the N-VA who is the current Minister for Finance,Budget,Housing and Immovable Heritage in the Flemish Government. He previously served as a member of the Flemish Parliament between 2009 and 2019.
Henri "Rik" Joseph Boel was a Belgian politician and a judge.
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.
The Belgian provincial,municipal and district elections of 2018 took place on Sunday 14 October 2018. They are organised by the respective regions:
Harrie Hendrickx is a former Belgian local politician in Schoten for the Christian democratic CVP/CD&V party.
In the run up to the 2024 Belgian federal election,various organisations carry out opinion polling to gauge voting intention in Belgium. Results of such polls are displayed in this article.
Events of the year 2019 in Belgium.
The government formation of 2019–2020 started one day after the federal elections,regional elections and European elections which were all held simultaneously on 26 May 2019. These formations are only the second under King Philippe.
Sammy Mahdi is a Belgian Christian-Democrat politician,a member of CD&V,who in March 2020 became a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives. On 1 October 2020,Mahdi became Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration in the new government led by Alexander De Croo.
Wouter Vermeersch is a Belgian politician from Flanders for the Vlaams Belang party and a member of the Chamber of Representatives.
Vincent Van Peteghem is a Belgian economist and politician of CD&V who has been serving as Minister of Finance in the government of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo since 1 October 2020. He was a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium from 2014 until 2020.
Georges-Louis Bouchez (GLB),is a Belgian politician and lawyer. Since 2019 he has served as a Senator and leader of Mouvement réformateur.
Belgian apologies to the Congo are the subject of a societal debate in Belgium over the expression of apologies of the role that country has played in the atrocities that have been committed in the Congo Free State and the Belgian Congo between 1885 and 1960,as well as the colony of Ruanda-Urundi (1924–1962).
Joris Nachtergaele is a Belgian politician for the N-VA.
Egbert R. Lachaert is a Belgian lawyer and politician who is currently party chairman of the Open VLD.
