Wallonia,officially the Walloon Region,is one of the three regions of Belgium—along with Flanders and Brussels. Covering the southern portion of the country,Wallonia is primarily French-speaking. It accounts for 55% of Belgium's territory,but only a third of its population. The Walloon Region and the French Community of Belgium,which is the political entity responsible for matters related mainly to culture and education,are independent concepts,because the French Community of Belgium encompasses both Wallonia and the bilingual Brussels-Capital Region but not the German-speaking Community of Belgium.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 6 May 2002 to 31 May 2005 under President Jacques Chirac.
The Liberal Reformist Party was a liberal political party active in Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium. The PRL grew out of the Francophone part of the unitary liberal Party for Freedom and Progress (PVV-PLP) in 1971 and merged into the Reformist Movement (RM) in 2002.
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.
Pierre Joseph Auguste Messmer was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Minister of Armies under Charles de Gaulle from 1960 to 1969 –the longest serving since Étienne François,duc de Choiseul under Louis XV –and then as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1972 to 1974. A member of the French Foreign Legion,he was considered one of the historical Gaullists,and died aged 91 in the military hospital of the Val-de-Grâce in August 2007. He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1999;his seat was taken over by Simone Veil.
Georges-Augustin Bidault was a French politician. During World War II,he was active in the French Resistance. After the war,he served as foreign minister and premier on several occasions. He apparently joined the Organisation armée secrète;however he always denied his involvement.
Alain Marie Juppé is a French politician. A member of The Republicans,he was Prime Minister of France from 1995 to 1997 under President Jacques Chirac,during which period he faced major strikes that paralysed the country and became very unpopular. He left office after the victory of the left in the snap 1997 legislative elections. He had previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 1995,and as Minister of the Budget and Spokesman for the Government from 1986 to 1988. He was president of the political party Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) from 2002 to 2004 and mayor of Bordeaux from 2006 to 2019.
Catherine Lalumière is a French politician of the Radical Party of the Left.
The Centrists,known as The Centrists –New Centre since 2018,formerly known as New Centre and European Social Liberal Party,is a centre-right political party in France formed by the members of the Union for French Democracy (UDF) –including 18 of the 29 members of the UDF in the National Assembly) –who did not agree with François Bayrou's decision to found the Democratic Movement (MoDem) and wanted to support the newly-elected president Nicolas Sarkozy,continuing the UDF–Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) alliance.
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.
The Cabinet of the French Community of Belgium is the executive branch of the French Community of Belgium,and it sits in Brussels. It consists of a number of ministers chosen by the Parliament of the French Community and is headed by a Minister-President.
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.
Bruno Le Maire is a French politician,writer,and former diplomat who served as Economy and Finance Minister from 2017 to 2024 under President Emmanuel Macron.
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.
Willy Borsus is a Belgian politician. He is a member of the Reformist Movement (MR). He was the 14th Minister-President of Wallonia from the 28th of July 2017 to the 13th of September 2019.
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.
HervéJuvin is a French essayist and politician who was elected a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) on the National Rally (RN) list in 2019. He sat with Identity and Democracy (ID) until 2022,when he was expelled after being sentenced for domestic abuse.
Anne C.S.M. Barzin is a Belgian politician. She was a representative in the Chamber of Representatives from 1999 to 2007,a member of the Parliament of Wallonia from 2007 to 2014 and a Senator in the Senate of Belgium from 2014 to 2019. She was a member of the Liberal Reformist Party and the Reformist Movement.
Adrien Dolimont is a Belgian politician of the Reformist Movement serving as minister-president of Wallonia since 2024. From 2022 to 2024,he served as budget minister of Wallonia.
HervéCornillie is a Belgian politician of the Reformist Movement serving as a member of the Chamber of Representatives since 2024. From 2019 to 2022,he was a member of the Parliament of Wallonia.
