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.
The Reformist Movement is a liberal French-speaking political party in Belgium,which includes social-liberal and conservative-liberal factions. Stemming from the Belgian Liberal Party founded in 1846,the MR is one of the oldest parties on the European continent.
Philippe Couillard is a Canadian business advisor and former neurosurgeon,university professor and politician who served as 31st premier of Quebec from 2014 to 2018. Between 2003 and 2008,he was Quebec's Minister of Health and Social Services in Jean Charest's Liberal government and was MNA for Mont-Royal until he resigned in 2008. In the 2014 election,Couillard moved to the riding of Roberval,where he resides. He was the leader of the Quebec Liberal Party from 2013 to 2018. He resigned as Liberal leader and MNA on October 4,2018.
Paul Magnette is a Belgian politician. Since 2019,he is the leader of the Socialist Party,a social democratic French-speaking party in Belgium. He was mayor of Charleroi from December 2012 to December 2024. Magnette is a former political science professor at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and Director of the Institute of European Studies of the ULB. He was appointed minister in the Belgian federal government from 2007 to 2013 and was Minister-President of Wallonia from 2014 to 2017. He also was a member of the Senate of Belgium,of the Parliament of Wallonia and of the Parliament of the French Community.
Jean-Yves Le Drian is a French politician who served as Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs in the governments of Prime Ministers Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex (2017–2022) and as Minister of Defence under President François Hollande (2012–2017). A former member of the Socialist Party,he had been an Independent from 2018 before founding Territories of Progress in 2020.
Charles Michel is a Belgian politician who served as the president of the European Council from 2019 to 2024. He previously served as the prime minister of Belgium between 2014 and 2019. Michel became the minister of development cooperation in 2007 at age thirty-one,and remained in this position until elected the leader of the Francophone liberal Reformist Movement (MR) in February 2011. He led MR to the 2014 federal election,where they emerged as the third-largest party in the Chamber of Representatives. After coalition negotiations,Michel was confirmed as Prime Minister of a MR-N-VA-OVLD-CD&V government. He was sworn in on 11 October 2014,becoming the youngest Belgian prime minister since Jean-Baptiste Nothomb in 1841.
Alexander De Croo is a Belgian politician and businessman who served as prime minister of Belgium from 2020 to 2025.
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.
The Socialist Party is a centre-left to left-wing political party in France. It holds social democratic and pro-European views. The PS was for decades the largest party of the "French Left" and used to be one of the two major political parties under the Fifth Republic,along with the Rally for the Republic in the late 20th century,and with the Union for a Popular Movement in the early 2000s. It is currently led by First Secretary Olivier Faure. The PS is a member of the Party of European Socialists,Progressive Alliance and Socialist International.
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.
Valérie Rabault is a French engineer and politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has presided over the Socialists and affiliated group in the National Assembly since 2018. She has represented the 1st constituency of the Tarn-et-Garonne department in Parliament from 2012 to 2024. She was vice president of the National Assembly from 2022 to 2024.
Events of the year 2020 in Belgium.
David Clarinval is a Belgian politician of the Reformist Movement who has been serving as Minister of Labour and Economy in the De Wever government since February 2025. Additionally he was serving as Minister of Agriculture since Ocotber 2020 in both the De Croo government and the De Wever government. Before that he served as Minister of the Middle Class,SMEs,Self-employed,Social Integration and Urban Policy in the De Croo government.
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.
Ludivine Dedonder is a Belgian politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who served as Minister of Defence in the government of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo from 2020 to 2025.
Karine Lalieux is a Belgian politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who served as Minister of Pensions,Social Integration,Fighting Poverty and Disabled Persons in the government of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo between 2020 and 2025.
Mathieu Michel is a French-speaking Belgian politician. He belongs to the Mouvement réformateur (MR).
Events in the year 2023 in Belgium.
Federal elections were held in Belgium on 9 June 2024. The Chamber of Representatives received 150 members with five-year terms. European and regional elections took place on the same day.
