The monarchy of Belgium is the constitutional and hereditary institution of the monarchical head of state of Belgium. As a popular monarchy,the Belgian monarch uses the title king/queen of the Belgians and serves as the country's head of state and commander-in-chief of the Belgian Armed Forces.
Philippe is King of the Belgians. He is the eldest child of King Albert II and Queen Paola. He succeeded his father upon the former’s abdication for health reasons on 21 July 2013. He married Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz in 1999,with whom he has four children. Their eldest child,Princess Elisabeth,is first in the line of succession.
Ecolo,officially Écologistes Confédérés pour l'organisation de luttes originales is a French-speaking political party in Belgium based on green politics. The party is active in Wallonia,the Brussels-Capital Region,and the German-speaking Community of Belgium.
Charles Victor Pasqua was a French businessman and Gaullist politician. He was Interior Minister from 1986 to 1988,under Jacques Chirac's cohabitation government,and also from 1993 to 1995,under the government of Edouard Balladur.
Philippe Marie Jean Joseph Le Jolis de Villiers de Saintignon,known as Philippe de Villiers,is a French entrepreneur,politician and novelist. He is the founder of the Puy du Fou theme park in Vendée,which is centred around the history of France. Appointed Secretary of State for Culture in 1986 by President François Mitterrand,de Villiers entered the National Assembly the following year and the European Parliament in 1994.
François RenéJean Lucien Bayrou is a French politician who has presided over the Democratic Movement (MoDem) since he founded it in 2007. A centrist,he was a candidate in the 2002,2007 and 2012 presidential elections. He has also presided over the European Democratic Party (EDP) since 2004.
Jean-Marie Bockel is a French politician who has been serving as President Emmanuel Macron's Personal Envoy for Africa since 2024.
Gérard Philippe RenéAndréLarcher is a French politician serving as president of the Senate since 2014,previously holding the office from 2008 to 2011. A member of The Republicans,he has been a Senator for the Yvelines department since 1986,with an interruption between 2004 and 2007,when he was Minister for Employment,Labour and Professional Integration of Young People under President Jacques Chirac. Larcher also served as mayor of Rambouillet from 1983 to 2004 and again from 2007 until 2014.
Didier Guillaume is a French politician who served as minister of state of Monaco since 2024. He previously served as the minister of agriculture and food in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe from 2018 to 2020. A member of the Socialist Party until 2018,he was President of the General Council of Drôme from 2004 to 2015,Senator for Drôme from 2008 to 2018 and president of the Socialist group in the Senate from 2014 to 2018.
Philippe Madrelle was a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party,he served as a Deputy from the Gironde between 1968 and 1980,President of the General Council of Gironde between 1976 and 2015,and Senator from 1980 until his death.
Bruno Daniel Marie Paul Retailleau is a French politician who has presided over The Republicans group in the Senate since 2014. He has represented the Vendée department in the Senate since 2004. Retailleau also served as President of the General Council of Vendée from 2010 to 2015 and President of the Regional Council of Pays de la Loire from 2015 until 2017.
Franck Alix Georges Riester is a French politician who most recently served as Minister Delegate for Parliamentary Relations in the Government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne from 2022 to 2024. He previously served as Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness in the governments of Prime Ministers Jean Castex and Élisabeth Borne between 2020 and 2022. A former member of The Republicans,he founded and currently leads the centre-right Agir party.
Philippe Vigier is a French politician who served as Minister Delegate for the Overseas in the government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne from 2023 to 2024.
Philippe Jacques William Montanier is French professional football manager and former player who was most recently the head coach of Ligue 1 club Toulouse. As a player,he was as a goalkeeper.
The Di Rupo Government was the federal cabinet of Belgium sworn in on 6 December 2011,after a record-breaking 541 days of negotiations following the June 2010 elections. The government included social democrats (sp.a/PS),Christian democrats (CD&V/cdH) and liberals,respectively of the Dutch and French language groups. The government notably excluded the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA),the Flemish nationalist party which achieved a plurality and became the largest party. Its absence,together with the unwillingness of Open Vld to enter into an eight-party coalition that included the green parties,caused the government coalition to lack a majority in the Dutch language group. It was the first time that the Belgian prime minister had been openly gay,as Di Rupo became the world's first male openly gay head of government. Elio Di Rupo also became the first native French-speaking prime minister since 1979 and the first prime minister from Wallonia since 1974 and first socialist prime minister since 1974.
Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron is a French politician who has been the 25th and current president of France since 2017 and ex officio one of the two co-princes of Andorra. He previously was Minister of Economics,Industry and Digital Affairs under President François Hollande from 2014 to 2016 and Deputy Secretary-General to the President from 2012 to 2014. He has been a member of Renaissance since he founded it in 2016.
Philippe Bas is a French politician,member of the French Senate representing the department of Manche.
Édouard Charles Philippe is a French politician serving as mayor of Le Havre since 2020,previously holding the office from 2010 to 2017. He was Prime Minister of France from 15 May 2017 to 3 July 2020 under President Emmanuel Macron.
Luxembourg 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 as Arlon-Marche-Bastogne-Neufchâteau-Virton in 1995 following the fourth Belgian state reform. It was renamed Luxembourg in 2003 following the re-organisation of constituencies across Belgium along provincial lines. It is conterminous with the province of Luxembourg. The constituency currently elects four 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 212,441 registered electors.
Liège 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 Liège. The constituency currently elects 15 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 794,378 registered electors.
