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35-639: The Jambon Government ( Regering-Jambon ) was the Flemish Government formed and sworn in on 2 October 2019, following the 2019 Belgian regional elections and replacing the interim Homans Government . It was replaced by the Diependaele Government on 20 September 2024. On 30 September 2019, just over four months after the elections, the ruling parties ( New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), the Christian Democratic and Flemish party (CD&V) and

70-539: A "revolution" within the party, saying that "a liberal party", like the VLD, "can be only progressive and social". From 2000 to 2004, during the second period of its participation in the Belgian federal government and under Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, the VLD allegedly lost most of its ideological appeal. Several of its thinkers such as (former member) Boudewijn Bouckaert , president of Nova Civitas , heavily criticized

105-448: A coalition. Following the 2004 election ,     CD&V (29 seats)/     N-VA (6 seats),     sp.a /     Sociaal-Liberale Partij (25 seats) and     Open Vld (19 seats) parties formed a coalition. The composition at the end of the legislature: After the regional elections of 1999 , a coalition of VLD , SP , Agalev and the VU

140-404: A more inclusive society towards immigrants, but claims not to endorse open borders and wants quicker deportation of illegal immigrants. It also retains a socially liberal stance on matters such as same-sex marriage, LGBT rights and introducing a third gender option on official documents, but also believes the government shouldn't interfere with matters related to sexuality. For a period, the party

175-399: The 1999 general election when the VLD became the largest party. Guy Verhofstadt became Prime Minister and Patrick Dewael became Minister-President of Flanders . They were both at the head of a coalition of liberals, social democrats and greens . Before the 2007 general election , the VLD participated in a cartel with Vivant and Liberal Appeal . In February 2007, it decided to cease

210-707: The 2004 regional election until the 2009 regional election . Open VLD has been a member of the Leterme I Government formed on 22 March 2008, the Van Rompuy I Government formed on 2 January 2009, the Leterme II Government formed on 24 November 2009 and the Di Rupo Government formed on 6 December 2011. Ideologically, Open VLD started as an economically liberal and somewhat libertarian Thatcherite party under its founder, Guy Verhofstadt , which mirrored some of

245-638: The Jambon Government following the 2024 Belgian federal election and again consisted of three parties, together having a narrow majority of 65 seats out of 124 seats total. The     N-VA (31 seats) and     CD&V (16 seats) were already part of the outgoing coalition, with     Vooruit (18 seats) now replacing the Open Vld . Following the 7 June 2009 election ,   CD&V (31 seats),   N-VA (16 seats) and   SP.A (19 seats) parties formed

280-524: The Liberal Party of Belgium was barely organised. The school pact of 1958, as a result of which the most important argument for the traditional anti-clericalism was removed, gave the necessary impetus for a thorough renewal. During the liberal party congress of 1961, the Liberal Party was reformed into the bilingual Party for Freedom and Progress (PVV-PLP), and Omer Vanaudenhove became the chairman of

315-650: The Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats (Open Vld)) announced they had agreed to form a new coalition led by Jan Jambon , to be sworn in on 2 October 2019. The cabinet started with a small majority in the Flemish Parliament as it dropped from 89 to 70 seats since the previous election, needing 63 for a majority. It lost a further seat in April 2021 when Sihame El Kaouakibi left Open Vld and became an independent member of Parliament. The main opposition parties were

350-595: The Reformist Movement (MR) in Wallonia. The party led the government for three cabinets under Guy Verhofstadt from 1999 until March 2008. Open VLD then formed the Federal Government (the so-called "Swedish government") with N-VA , CD&V and Mouvement Réformateur. In the Flemish Parliament , the VLD formed a coalition government with sp.a-Spirit and Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V) from after

385-708: The governing coalition . The Government is chaired by the Flemish Minister-President . Ministers head executive departments of the government administration. Ministers must defend their policies and performance in person before the Flemish Parliament. The Flemish Government must receive and keep the confidence of the Flemish Parliament. Until 1993 the Flemish Government was called the Flemish Executive ( Vlaamse Executieve ). The coalition replaced

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420-518: The 29-year-old reformer Guy Verhofstadt became the chairman of the party, and even was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Budget from 1986 to 1988. Annemie Neyts succeeded him as chairman, becoming the first female party chairman. In 1989, Verhofstadt once more became the chairman of the PVV, after his party had been condemned to the opposition by the Christian People's Party (CVP) in 1987. In 1992,

455-595: The Flemish public administration are now organised in 13 policy areas. Each policy area comprises a department and a number of (semi-) independent government agencies. Only those with their own article are mentioned below. The 11 policy areas are: Several other institutes, such as the Flemish Opera and the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), were not incorporated into the above structure. Every year,

490-729: The Minister-President presents the current state of affairs in Flanders and the Government's plans for next year during the September Declaration on the fourth Monday in September. 2018 Flemish budget The below figures use the 2018 budget as example, which had €44.7 billion in expenses and €42.3 billion in revenue. The revenue comes from the following sources: The expenses are as follows per policy area: The Flemish Government owns

525-586: The PVV was reformed into the Flemish Liberals and Democrats ( Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten , VLD) under the impulse of Verhofstadt. Although the VLD was the successor of the PVV, many politicians with democratic nationalist or socialist roots joined the new party. Notable examples are Jaak Gabriëls , then-president of the Flemish People's Union , and Hugo Coveliers . From the early 1990s, the VLD advanced in every election, only to get in government following

560-500: The cartel and start operating under the name Open VLD . On the 10 June 2007 general elections , Open VLD won 18 out of 150 seats in the Chamber of Representatives and five out of 40 seats in the Senate . In the 2010 general election , Open VLD won 13 out of 150 seats in the Chamber of Representatives . After the long government formation process , on 6 December 2011 the Di Rupo Government

595-519: The conservative-libertarian organization Nova Civitas , and were open to working with the Vlaams Blok and later Vlaams Belang party, although this was strongly opposed by the party leadership as a whole. Presently, the Open VLD retains an economically liberal position by supporting lower taxes and private property ownership while also closing tax loopholes. It supports a Canadian model of migration and for

630-583: The different communities in Belgium rose and there were disagreements within the liberal movement as well. In 1972, the unitary PVV-PLP was split into separate a Flemish and a Francophone parties. On Flemish side, under the guidance of Frans Grootjans , Herman Vanderpoorten and Willy De Clercq , the PVV was created, on Walloon side Milou Jeunehomme became the head of the PLP and Brussels got its own but totally disintegrated liberal party landscape. Willy De Clercq became

665-529: The elections to arch rivals CD&V and the Flemish Bloc . The VLD fell from second to third place among the Flemish political parties, slipping narrowly behind the sp.a-Spirit cartel. Internal feuds, the support for electoral rights for immigrants and an unsuccessful economic policy were seen as the main reasons for its election defeat. From 2007, the party kept having electoral difficulties, first due to competition from split-off List Dedecker and after 2010 from

700-627: The far-right Vlaams Belang (VB), the Green party and the Socialist Party (sp.a). The coalition replaced the interim Homans Government , again consisting of the     N-VA (35 seats),     CD&V (19 seats) and     Open Vld (16 seats). In contrary to what was expected, the N-VA only has four ministers (instead of five), while CD&V has three (instead of only two). Finally, Open Vld has two ministers, although in

735-432: The final months of the Government, following the resignation of Gwendolyn Rutten , no new minister was appointed and Open Vld was left with only one minister. Flemish Government The Flemish Government cabinet consists of up to a maximum of eleven ministers, chosen by the Flemish Parliament . At least one minister must come from Brussels . The ministers are drawn from the political parties which, in practice, form

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770-430: The first chairman of the independent Party of Freedom and Progress ( Dutch : Partij voor Vrijheid en Vooruitgang , PVV). De Clercq, together with Frans Grootjans and Herman Vanderpoorten, set out the lines for the new party. This reform was coupled an Ethical Congress, on which the PVV adopted very progressive and tolerant stances regarding abortion, euthanasia , adultery , homosexuality and gender equality . In 1982,

805-480: The first direct elections for the Flemish Parliament), a coalition of CVP and SP was formed. The Flemish administration (Dutch: Vlaamse overheid ) denotes the Flemish civil service . With the 2006 reform program Better Administrative Policy (Dutch: Beter Bestuurlijk Beleid ), the Flemish civil service is designed to make the Flemish public administration more efficient and transparent. The tasks of

840-521: The liberal-conservative Flemish-nationalist party N-VA . The VLD has its origins in the Party for Freedom and Progress (which in turn was a successor to the Liberal Party ), a bilingual party which stood in both the Flemish and Walloon regions of Belgium. As such the liberal party is the oldest political party of Belgium. In 1846, Walthère Frère-Orban succeeded in creating a political program which could unite several liberal groups into one party. Before 1960,

875-403: The new party. The new liberal party, which struggled with an anti-clerical image, opened its doors for believers, but wasn't too concerned about the situation of workers and primarily defended the interests of employers. It is a central principle of Classical Liberalism that employers and employees do NOT have opposed long term interests. In the late 1960s and the early 1970s, the tensions between

910-457: The original ideology of the PVV. The VLD rapidly became more centrist and gave up much of its free market approach, partly under the influence of Verhofstadt's political scientist brother Dirk Verhofstadt . However, the VLD continued to contain conservative-libertarian and classical liberal wings with ties to think-tanks like Nova Civitas . Party chairman Bart Somers called in November 2006 for

945-492: The paper are to be shut down in October 2017. Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats The Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats ( Dutch : Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten , pronounced [ˈoːpə(ɱ) ˈvlaːmsə libəˈraːlən ɛn deːmoːˈkraːtə(n), -lə ʔɛn -] ; Open Vld ) is a Flemish liberal political party in Belgium. The party has been described as centre-right and has smaller factions within

980-522: The party that have conservative liberal and social liberal views. The party is a member of the Liberal Group , Renew Europe , and Liberal International . The party was created in 1992 from the former bilingual Party for Freedom and Progress (PVV) and politicians from other parties after Belgium was reconstituted as a federal state based on language, with the French-speaking faction forming

1015-408: The party's ideological influences have been Karl Popper , John Stuart Mill , Thomas Paine , Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum . The party also contained members from both social democratic and Flemish nationalist liberal-conservative backgrounds who have influenced the VLD's course, such as former Volksunie leader Jaak Gabriëls and Hugo Coveliers falling into the latter camp. Others had ties to

1050-726: The party. Dedecker later founded the LDD and Coveliers VLOTT while others joined the N-VA. In 2024, Open VLD (along with MR) blocked Belgium from recognizing the State of Palestine . The party is fairly pro-European , and sits in the Renew Europe group with two MEPs. Then-Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt (VLD) was rejected as a candidate for the presidency of the European Commission in June 2004. In

1085-494: The party. Many others, particularly from the party's conservative and Flemish autonomist wing, resented the priority it placed on the 'Belgian compromise', which enabled the French Community 's Socialist Party to gain a dominant position in the formulation of Belgian federal government policy. In 2004, the VLD teamed up with the minority social-liberal party Vivant for both the Flemish and European elections . VLD-Vivant lost

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1120-460: The rights to Flanders Today , an English-speaking online and print newspaper focused on current affairs in Flanders and Brussels. The project was launched in 2007 by Geert Bourgeois – then Minister of Foreign Affairs and Tourism -, for three main reasons: In May 2017, the Flemish Government announced it would not be rebidding the Flanders Today project. Both the print and the online version of

1155-655: Was considered the main centre-right rival to the Christian Democratic CD&;V in the Flemish region and saw its highest period of support in the late 1990s and early 2000s. However, the emergence of the Flemish nationalist N-VA party and the LDD drew some of the party's conservative leaning voters away and contributed to a decline in votes. Ideological disputes also caused some of the party's more conservative and traditionalist libertarian wing such as Boudewijn Bouckaert , Jean-Marie Dedecker and Hugo Coveliers to leave

1190-408: Was formed with Patrick Dewael (VLD) as Minister-President. After the federal elections of June 2003 , Patrick Dewael resigned as Minister-President and went to the federal political level. He was succeeded by Bart Somers as Flemish Minister-President until the end of term in 2004. Due to changes in political parties, the coalition was different: After the regional elections of 1995 (which were

1225-448: Was formed, with Open VLD one of the six constituent parties. At its inception, the Open VLD was a classical liberal and somewhat right-libertarian party with support for free-markets and deregulation. Former party leader Guy Verhofstadt was compared to Margaret Thatcher in his beliefs during his time as party chairman. In the 1990s, the party switched from a libertarian to a more socially liberal position under Bart Somers . Some of

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