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.
Flanders is both a cultural community and an economic region within the Belgian state,and has significant autonomy.
Hugo F.V. Coveliers is a retired Belgian politician and lawyer. He was a member of the Belgian Chamber of People's Representatives between 1985 and 1995,and from 1993 to 2003. Since 2003,he has been a member of the Belgian Senate. He was a parliamentary chairman for the VLD in both chambers,from 1999 to 2003.
Jean-Marie Louis Dedecker is a Belgian politician.
Vlaams Belang is a Flemish nationalist,Eurosceptic and right-wing populist political party in the Flemish Region and Brussels Capital Region of Belgium. It is widely considered to be on the political far-right,although it self-describes as centre-right.
Flemish political parties operate in the whole Flemish Community,which covers the unilingual Flemish Region and the bilingual Brussels-Capital Region. In the latter,they compete with French-speaking parties that all also operate in Wallonia. There are very few parties that operate on a national level in Belgium. Flanders generally tends to vote for right-wing,conservative parties,whereas in French-speaking Belgium the socialist party is usually the most successful one.
Eduard Marie August "Ward" Beysen was a Belgian politician and well-known freemason. He held a degree in Dutch and history teaching,obtained in 1963,in Lier and started his political career in the seventies in the Flemish liberal party,the Party for Freedom and Progress (PVV),which was renamed Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD) in 1992. Ward Beysen –suffering a depression –died by drowning himself in the lake of Fort 6 in the south of Antwerp.
Nova Civitas was a Flemish think tank based on the principles of classic liberalism in combination with Anglo-Saxon conservatism. Nova Civitas claimed at its founding to be completely independent,although it was recognized and supported by the Flemish Liberal Party (VLD). The Founding Chairman of Nova Civitas,Boudewijn Bouckaert,was a long-time board member of the VLD.
According to their website,the basic principles of Nova Civitas were:
Boudewijn Bouckaert is a Belgian law professor,a member of the Flemish Movement,and a libertarian conservative thinker and politician. He was a Member of the Flemish Parliament for the liberal party List Dedecker. He is also a former president of the Belgian classical liberal think tanks Nova Civitas,Cassandra and Libera!.
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.
Libertarian,Direct,Democratic is a conservative-liberal,libertarian,right-wing populist Flemish political party in Belgium.
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.
Federal elections were held in Belgium on 25 May 2014. All 150 members of the Chamber of Representatives were elected,whereas the Senate was no longer directly elected following the 2011–2012 state reform. These were the first elections held under King Philippe's reign.
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.
Wouter Vermeersch is a Belgian politician from Flanders for the Vlaams Belang party and a member of the Chamber of Representatives.
Jan Penris is a Belgian politician of the Vlaams Belang party who sat as a member of the Flemish Parliament and then the 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.
