The politics of Belgium take place in the framework of a federal,representative democratic,constitutional monarchy. The King of the Belgians is the head of state,and the prime minister of Belgium is the head of government,in a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Federal legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of parliament,the Senate and the Chamber of Representatives. The federation is made up of (language-based) communities and (territorial) regions. Philippe is the seventh and current King of the Belgians,having ascended the throne on 21 July 2013.
Flemish Brabant is a province of Flanders,one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders on the Belgian provinces of Antwerp,Limburg,Liège,Walloon Brabant,Hainaut and East Flanders. Flemish Brabant also surrounds the Brussels-Capital Region. Its capital is Leuven. It has an area of 2,118 km2 (818 sq mi) which is divided into two administrative districts containing 65 municipalities. As of January 2019,Flemish Brabant has a population of 1,146,175.
Christian Democratic and Flemish is a Flemish Christian-democratic political party in Belgium. The party has historical ties to both trade unionism (ACV) and trade associations (UNIZO) and the Farmer's League. Until 2001,the party was named the Christian People's Party.
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.
Groen,founded as Agalev,is a green Flemish political party in Belgium. Its French-speaking equivalent is Ecolo;the two parties maintain close relations with each other.
The Workers' Party of Belgium is a Marxist and socialist political party in Belgium. It is one of the few Belgian parties that is a fully national party,representing both Flanders and Wallonia. Having traditionally been a small party,the PTB-PVDA has gained momentum since the 2010s,continuously scoring better at the elections and elections,particularly in Wallonia and working-class communities in Brussels.
Frank Ignace Georgette Vandenbroucke is a Belgian-Flemish academic and politician of Vooruit who has been serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Social Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo since 2020.
Frederika Marie Joseph (Frieda) Brepoels is a Belgian politician of N-VA,mayor of Bilzen and former Member of the European Parliament for Flanders.
Magdalena Godelieve HildaAelvoet is a Belgian politician in Flanders. She was a provincial senator for Antwerp between 1985 and 1991 and a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for the district of Leuven between 1991 and 1994,when she also served in the Flemish Council. She was a member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999,where she was the chair of the Greens. Aelvoet was appointed deputy prime minister and the Minister of Consumer Affairs,Public Health and the Environment in the Verhofstadt I government between 1999 and 2002 and became a Minister of State in 1995.
Bruno Tobback was the president of the Flemish socialist party Different Socialist Party (SP.A) from 2011 to 2015. He was Minister of Environment and Pensions in the Belgian federal government from 2004 until 2007. He is the son of former minister and former mayor of Leuven Louis Tobback. He is a Licentiate in Law and a Licentiate in Social and Economic Law. He was a member of the Flemish Parliament from 1995 to 2004.
The Belgian Labour Party was the first major socialist party in Belgium. Founded in 1885,the party was officially disbanded in 1940 and superseded by the Belgian Socialist Party in 1945.
Henri Maria Dymphna AndréLaurent "Rik" Torfs is a Belgian canon law scholar and media personality. He is a former Senator for the Christian Democratic and Flemish party in the Belgian Federal Parliament and a former Rector of the Catholic University of Leuven.
Eva Brems is a Belgian university professor,human rights defender and politician. She is a senior lecturer in human rights and non-Western law at Ghent University. Besides her academic engagements,Brems has also been politically active. From 2006 until 2010,she was the president of the Flemish division of Amnesty International. In the spring of 2010 she announced her candidacy in the 2010 Belgian general election for the Chamber of Representatives. She now represents the constituency of Leuven for the environmentalist party Groen.
Meyrem Almaci is a Belgian politician from Flanders and member of the ecological party Groen. On 10 June 2007,she was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for the first time. She was re-elected in 2010 and in 2014 when she also became the president of Groen. In 2019 she left the Belgian parliament and was elected in the Flemish Parliament.
The Belgian provincial,municipal and district elections of 2012 took place on 14 October. As with the previous 2006 elections,these are no longer organised by the Belgian federal state but instead by the respective regions:
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:
The 2019 Belgian regional elections took place on Sunday 26 May,the same day as the 2019 European Parliament election as well as the Belgian federal election.
Sammy Mahdi is a Belgian Christian-Democrat politician,a member and the president of CD&V,who in March 2020 became a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives.
Bert August Flor Herman Schoofs is a Belgian lawyer and former politician of the Vlaams Blok and its successor Vlaams Belang party.
