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.
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 both the De Croo government as well as the De Wever government since 2020.
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.
Herman Francies Joseph De Croo is a Belgian politician of the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats. First elected in March 1968,he is the longest serving Belgian member of parliament,serving uninterrupted until 2014. He is the father of incumbent prime minister Alexander De Croo.
Alexander De Croo is a Belgian politician and businessman who served as prime minister of Belgium from 2020 to 2025.
Sophie Wilmès is a Belgian politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 2019 to 2020. She later served as minister of foreign affairs from 2020 to 2022. A member of the Reformist Movement,she is the first woman to hold either position.
Hainaut 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 2003 following the re-organisation of constituencies across Belgium along provincial lines. It is conterminous with the province of Hainaut. The constituency currently elects 18 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 942,789 registered electors.
East Flanders 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 2003 following the re-organisation of constituencies across Belgium along provincial lines. It is conterminous with the province of East Flanders. The constituency currently elects 20 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 1,155,734 registered electors.
Events of the year 2020 in Belgium.
The Wilmès II Government was a minority Federal Government of Belgium,led by Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès,the first female Prime Minister of Belgium.
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.
Vincent Van Peteghem is a Belgian economist and politician of CD&V who has been serving as a Deputy Prime Minister and as the Minister of Budget in the De Wever Government since february 2025. He previously served as the Minister of Finance in the De Croo government from 1 October 2020 to 3 February 2025. He was a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium from 2014 until 2020.
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.
Annelies Jan Louisa Verlinden is a Belgian politician. As of 3 February 2025,she is the Minister of Justice in the De Wever Government led by Prime Minister Bart De Wever. Previously she was Minister of the Interior,Institutional Reforms,and Democratic Renewal in the De Croo Government. Verlinden is a member of the Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams party.
Pierre-Yves Dermagne is a Belgian politician who served as Minister of Economy and Employment in the De Croo Government led by Prime Minister Alexander De Croo between 2020 and 2025. He is affiliated with the Socialist Party. He won the 2018 communal elections in Rochefort with 2,109 votes over François Bellot. In October 2021,he advocated for a reduction in the work week from five days a week to four.
Karine Lalieux is a Belgian politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as Minister of Pensions,Social Integration,Fighting Poverty and Disabled Persons in the government of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo since 2020.
Events in the year 2021 in Belgium.
The manhunt for Jürgen Conings began on 18 May 2021,after the discovery that Conings,a Belgian soldier under suspicion of far-right extremism,had taken several weapons from military barracks in Leopoldsburg the previous day and farewell letters were found containing violent threats directed at the Belgian government and virologists. On 20 June 2021,Belgian media reported that a body had been found in the Dilserbos forest,which was later confirmed by the Federal Prosecutor's Office to be the body of Jürgen Conings. One day later,the Federal Prosecutor's Office confirmed that Conings died of suicide by gunshot,which was disputed by his family. A second autopsy was denied and he was cremated a few days later.
Paul Van Tigchelt is a Belgian politician from Open VLD who served as the Federal Minister of Justice and the North Sea in the government of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo from 22 October 2023 to 3 February 2025.
