The Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats is a Flemish conservative liberal political party in Belgium. A smaller fraction within the party has social liberal views.
Hugo F.V. Coveliers is a retired Belgian politician and lawyer. He was a member of the Belgian Chamber of People's Representatives between 1985 and 1995,and from 1993 to 2003. Since 2003,he has been a member of the Belgian Senate. He was a parliamentary chairman for the VLD in both chambers,from 1999 to 2003.
Jean-Marie Louis Dedecker is a Belgian politician.
Karim Van Overmeire is a Flemish politician,author,city planner and member of the New Flemish Alliance party.
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.
Magdalena Godelieve HildaAelvoet is a Belgian politician in Flanders. She was a provincial senator for Antwerp between 1985 and 1991 and a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for the district of Leuven between 1991 and 1994,when she also served in the Flemish Council. She was a member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999,where she was the chair of the Greens. Aelvoet was appointed deputy prime minister and the Minister of Consumer Affairs,Public Health and the Environment in the Verhofstadt I government between 1999 and 2002 and became a Minister of State in 1995.
The 2007–2008 Belgian government formation followed the general election of 10 June 2007,and comprised a period of negotiation in which the Flemish parties Flemish Liberal Democratic,Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V) and New Flemish Alliance (N-VA),and the French-speaking parties Reformist Movement (MR),Democratic Front of Francophones (FDF) and Humanist Democratic Centre (CdH) negotiated to form a government coalition. The negotiations were characterized by the disagreement between the Dutch- and French-speaking parties about the need for and nature of a constitutional reform. According to some,this political conflict could have led to a partition of Belgium.
Alexander De Croo is a Belgian politician and businessman who has served as the prime minister of Belgium since October 2020.
Meyrem Almaci is a Belgian politician from Flanders and member of the ecological party Groen. On 10 June 2007,she was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for the first time. She was re-elected in 2010 and in 2014 when she also became the president of Groen. In 2019 she left the Belgian parliament and was elected in the Flemish Parliament.
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.
Gwendolyn Angeline Albert Maria Rutten is a Belgian politician. She was the chairwoman of the Flemish liberal party until March 22,2020. On 11 January 2017 she resigned from the Flemish Parliament in order to prepare her party for the local election of 2018.
The LVSV(Liberaal Vlaams StudentenVerbond or Liberal Flemish Students' Association) unites all Dutch speaking classical-liberal and libertarian students in Belgium. The values they uphold are individual freedom,freedom of speech,free trade and human rights,with focus on the non-aggression principle. The LVSV opposes big government in any meaning. They are an independent organisation,not affiliated to any political party. The LVSV organises political activities as well as typical student activities in five cities:Antwerp,Brussels,Ghent,Hasselt and Leuven. There currently is no national president. Famous former members include Guy Verhofstadt,Bart De Wever (N-VA),Zuhal Demir (N-VA),Willy De Clercq,Karel De Gucht and Egbert Lachaert.
Tom Jozef Irène Van Grieken is a Belgian politician and author who has served as leader of Vlaams Belang since October 2014.
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 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.
Joachim Coens is a Belgian politician and businessman who has served as the leader of Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams,a Christian democratic political party,since December 2019. Before politics,he had been managing director of the holding company for the Port de Bruges-Zeebruges.
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.
Sihame El Kaouakibi is a Belgian politician and the founder of the Let's Go Urban project. In 2021,she was accused of fraudulent use of government subsidies. Almost 1 million euro is claimed to have been used for her own profit.
Conner Rousseau is a Belgian politician who is the chairman of the social-democratic Flemish Vooruit party. He became its chairman in November 2019 at the age of 26.
