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 polls and elections,particularly in Wallonia and working-class communities in Brussels.
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.
Belgische Unie –Union Belge,known by the acronym BUB,is a small political party in Belgium. It describes itself as "The Centrist Party for a United Belgium". As one of the only political parties organised across the entire country,it wishes to abolish the federal system in Belgium and re-establish a unitary state based on the original nine provinces. The party is explicitly opposed to separatism and the partition of Belgium.
The Chamber of Representatives is one of the two chambers in the bicameral Federal Parliament of Belgium,the other being the Senate. It is considered to be the "lower house" of the Federal Parliament.
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.
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.
Alexander De Croo is a Belgian politician and businessman who has served as the prime minister of Belgium since October 2020.
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.
Maggie Celine Louise De Block is a Belgian politician of the Open VLD who has been chairing her party's group in the Chamber of Representatives since 2020.
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.
The Belgian provincial,municipal and district elections of 2018 took place on Sunday 14 October 2018. They are organised by the respective regions:
In the run up to the 2019 Belgian federal election,various organisations carry out opinion polling to gauge voting intention in Belgium. Results of such polls are displayed in this article.
Raoul Hedebouw is a Belgian politician who has served as the president of the Workers' Party of Belgium (PVDA-PTB) since 2021. He previously served as the national spokesperson of the party until 2021,as well as fraction leader in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives. He furthermore serves as member of the Liège City Council.
In the run up to the 2024 Belgian federal election,various organisations carry out opinion polling to gauge voting intention in Belgium. The date range for these polls are from the 2019 Belgian federal election,held on 25 May,to the present day. The results of nationwide polls are usually numerically split into the three Belgian regions:Flanders,Brussels and Wallonia. Federal seat projections for the Chamber of Representatives are presented together under these regional polls.
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 were only the second under King Philippe.
The Wilmès I Government was a caretaker Federal Government of Belgium,led by Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès,the first ever 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.
The De Croo Government is the incumbent Federal Government of Belgium,led by Prime Minister Alexander De Croo since 1 October 2020.
Katleen Bury is a Belgian-Flemish politician and lawyer who has been a member of the Chamber of Representatives for the Vlaams Belang party since 2019.
