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Political parties in Belgium

Index Political parties in Belgium

Belgium is a federal state with a multi-party political system, with numerous parties who factually have no chance of gaining power alone, and therefore must work with each other to form coalition governments. [1]

130 relations: Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party, Anti-clericalism, Bart De Wever, Belgian federal election, 1999, Belgian Federal Parliament, Belgian general election, 1946, Belgian general election, 1985, Belgian Labour Party, Belgian regional elections, 2009, Belgische Unie – Union Belge, Belgium, Benoît Lutgen, Boudewijn Bouckaert, Brussels, Catholic Party (Belgium), Catholic University of Leuven (1835–1968), Centre démocrate humaniste, Chamber of Representatives (Belgium), Charleroi, Charles Michel, Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams, Christlich Soziale Partei (Belgium), Coalition government, Cold War, Committee for Another Policy, Communism, Communist International, Communist Party (Flanders), Communist Party (Wallonia), Communist Party of Belgium, Confederation, Conservatism, Cordon sanitaire, DéFI, Devolution, Dutch language, Dutch-speaking electoral college, Ecolo, Election threshold, Elio Di Rupo, Erik Derycke (politician), European Alliance for Freedom, European Federalist Party, European Free Alliance, European Green Party, European People's Party, Federation, Flanders, Flemish Movement, Flemish Parliament, ..., Foreign minister, Frank Vandenbroucke (politician), French language, French-speaking electoral college, Gérard Deprez, German language, German-speaking Community of Belgium, German-speaking electoral college, Groen (political party), Gwendolyn Rutten, Hugo Coveliers, International Workers' League (Belgium), Jean-Marie Dedecker, Joëlle Milquet, Johan Van Hecke, John Crombez, Left Socialist Party (Belgium), Liège, Liberal Appeal, Liberal conservatism, Liberal Party (Belgium), Liberal Reformist Party, Liberalism in Belgium, Libertair, Direct, Democratisch, List of ruling political parties by country, Maoism, Marxism, Meyrem Almaci, Mischaël Modrikamen, Mons, Mouvement des Citoyens pour le Changement, Mouvement Réformateur, Multi-party system, National Force (Belgium), National Front (Belgium), New Flemish Alliance, Olivier Chastel, Olivier Maingain, Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten, Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region, Parliament of the French Community, Parliament of the German-speaking Community, Parliament of Wallonia, Partei für Freiheit und Fortschritt, Parti Socialiste (Belgium), Party of European Socialists, People's Party (Belgium), People's Union (Belgium), Peter Mertens, Pim Fortuyn, Pirate Party (Belgium), Political parties in Flanders, Political party, Politics of Belgium, Politics of Flanders, Politics of Wallonia, Pro Bruxsel, ProDG (Belgium), Progressivism, Rassemblement Wallonie France, Red!, Revolutionary Communist League (Belgium), Sociaal-Liberale Partij, Social Democratic Party of Germany, Socialist Party (France), Socialistische Partij Anders, Tom Van Grieken, Trotskyism, Union des Francophones, Vivant, Vlaams Belang, Vlaams Blok, VLOTT, Wallonia, Walloon Rally, Ward Beysen, Willy Claes, Workers' Party of Belgium, World War II, Wouter Beke. Expand index (80 more) »

Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party

The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE Party) is a European political party mainly active in the European Union, composed of 60 national-level liberal parties from across Europe.

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Anti-clericalism

Anti-clericalism is opposition to religious authority, typically in social or political matters.

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Bart De Wever

Bart Albert Liliane De Wever (born 21 December 1970) is a Belgian politician.

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Belgian federal election, 1999

The June 13, 1999 Belgian federal elections was a Belgian election for the Belgian Chamber of Representatives and Belgian Senate.

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Belgian Federal Parliament

The Belgian Federal Parliament is the bicameral parliament of Belgium.

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Belgian general election, 1946

General elections were held in Belgium on 17 February 1946.

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Belgian general election, 1985

General elections were held in Belgium on 13 October 1985.

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Belgian Labour Party

The Belgian Labour Party or Belgian Workers' Party (Belgische Werkliedenpartij, BWP; Parti Ouvrier Belge, POB) was the first major socialist party in Belgium.

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Belgian regional elections, 2009

Regional elections were held in Belgium on 7 June 2009 to choose representatives in the regional parliaments of Flanders, Wallonia, Brussels and the German-speaking Community of Belgium.

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Belgische Unie – Union Belge

Belgische Unie – Union Belge (Dutch and French for Belgian Union), known by the acronym BUB, is a small political party in Belgium.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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Benoît Lutgen

Benoît Lutgen (born 10 March 1970 in Bastogne) is the head of the Centre démocrate humaniste (Humanist Democrat Centre) political party in Belgium.

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Boudewijn Bouckaert

Boudewijn Bouckaert (born 21 July 1947) is a Belgian law professor, a member of the Flemish Movement, and a libertarian conservative thinker and politician.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the de jure capital of Belgium.

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Catholic Party (Belgium)

The Catholic Party (Parti catholique, Katholieke Partij) was established in 1869 as the Confessional Catholic Party (Confessionele Katholieke Partij).

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Catholic University of Leuven (1835–1968)

The Catholic University of Leuven (of Louvain in French, and historically in English), founded as the Catholic University of Mechelen in 1834 and transferred to the town of Leuven in 1835, was considered the largest, oldest and most prominent university in Belgium.

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Centre démocrate humaniste

The Humanist Democratic Centre (Centre démocrate humaniste, cdH) is a Christian democratic French-speaking political party in Belgium.

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Chamber of Representatives (Belgium)

The Chamber of Representatives (Dutch:, Chambre des représentants, Abgeordnetenkammer) is one of the two chambers in the bicameral Federal Parliament of Belgium, the other being the Senate.

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Charleroi

Charleroi (Tchålerwè) is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.

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Charles Michel

Charles Yves Jean Ghislaine Michel (born 21 December 1975) is a Belgian politician who is the current Prime Minister of Belgium.

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Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams

Christian Democratic and Flemish (Dutch: Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams, CD&V) is a Christian democratic Flemish political party in Belgium.

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Christlich Soziale Partei (Belgium)

The Christian Social Party (Christlich-Soziale Partei, CSP) is a Christian-democratic political party operating in the German-speaking community of Belgium.

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Coalition government

A coalition government is a cabinet of a parliamentary government in which many or multiple political parties cooperate, reducing the dominance of any one party within that "coalition".

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Cold War

The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).

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Committee for Another Policy

The Committee for Another Policy (Comité voor een Andere Politiek, Comité pour une Autre Politique), abbreviated to CAP, is a Belgian left-wing political movement that was established in 2005, and became a political party since 2006.

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Communism

In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.

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Communist International

The Communist International (Comintern), known also as the Third International (1919–1943), was an international communist organization that advocated world communism.

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Communist Party (Flanders)

The Communist Party (Kommunistische Partij, often abbreviated KP) was a political party in Flanders, Belgium.

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Communist Party (Wallonia)

Communist Party (Parti Communiste, or PC) is a political party in Wallonia, Belgium.

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Communist Party of Belgium

Communist Party of Belgium (Kommunistische Partij van België, Parti Communiste de Belgique) was a political party in Belgium.

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Confederation

A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a union of sovereign states, united for purposes of common action often in relation to other states.

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Conservatism

Conservatism is a political and social philosophy promoting traditional social institutions in the context of culture and civilization.

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Cordon sanitaire

Cordon sanitaire is a French phrase that, literally translated, means "sanitary cordon".

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DéFI

DéFI is a social liberal, liberal, and regionalist political party in Belgium, which is mainly known for defending the French-speakers interests in and near the Brussels region.

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Devolution

Devolution is the statutory delegation of powers from the central government of a sovereign state to govern at a subnational level, such as a regional or local level.

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Dutch language

The Dutch language is a West Germanic language, spoken by around 23 million people as a first language (including the population of the Netherlands where it is the official language, and about sixty percent of Belgium where it is one of the three official languages) and by another 5 million as a second language.

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Dutch-speaking electoral college

The Dutch-speaking electoral college is one of three constituencies of the European Parliament in Belgium.

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Ecolo

Ecolo (which officially stands for the backronym Écologistes Confédérés pour l'organisation de luttes originales "Confederated ecologists for the organisation of original struggles", but is really just short for écologiste, French for environmentalist) is a French-speaking political party in Belgium based on green politics.

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Election threshold

The electoral threshold is the minimum share of the primary vote which a candidate or political party requires to achieve before they become entitled to any representation in a legislature.

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Elio Di Rupo

Elio Di Rupo (born 18 July 1951) is a Belgian social-democratic politician who served as the 50th Prime Minister of Belgium from 6 December 2011 to 11 October 2014, and headed the Di Rupo Government.

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Erik Derycke (politician)

Erik A. N. Derycke (born 28 October 1949) is a Flemish socialist politician, lawyer, former minister and a current judge at the Constitutional Court of Belgium.

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European Alliance for Freedom

The European Alliance for Freedom (EAF) is a pan-European political party of right-wing Eurosceptics.

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European Federalist Party

The European Federalist Party is a pro-European, pan-European and federalist political party which advocates further integration of the European Union through the establishment of a democratic and federal Europe.

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European Free Alliance

The European Free Alliance (EFA) is a European political coalition that consists of various regionalist political parties in Europe.

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European Green Party

The European Green Party (EGP), sometimes referred to as European Greens, is the European political party that operates as a federation of political parties across Europe supporting green politics.

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European People's Party

The European People's Party (EPP) is a conservative and Christian democratic European political party.

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Federation

A federation (also known as a federal state) is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a central (federal) government.

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Flanders

Flanders (Vlaanderen, Flandre, Flandern) is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium, although there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to culture, language, politics and history.

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Flemish Movement

The Flemish Movement (Vlaamse Beweging) is the political movement for greater autonomy of the Belgian region of Flanders, for protection of the Dutch language, for the overall protection of Flemish culture and history, and in some cases, for splitting from Belgium and forming an independent state.

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Flemish Parliament

The Flemish Parliament (Dutch:, and formerly called Flemish Council or Vlaamse Raad) constitutes the legislative power in Flanders, for matters which fall within the competence of Flanders, both as a geographic region and a cultural community of Belgium (unlike the French-speaking community and Wallonia, which each have separate legislatures - the Parliament of the French Community and the Walloon Parliament).

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Foreign minister

A foreign minister or minister of foreign affairs (less commonly for foreign affairs) is generally a cabinet minister in charge of a state's foreign policy and relations.

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Frank Vandenbroucke (politician)

Frank Ignace Georgette Vandenbroucke (born 21 October 1955 in Leuven) is a Belgian, Flemish academic and former politician of the Different Socialist Party (SP.A).

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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French-speaking electoral college

The French-speaking electoral college is one of three constituencies of the European Parliament in Belgium.

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Gérard Deprez

Gérard M.J. Deprez (born 13 August 1943 in Noville, Bastogne) is a Belgian politician.

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German language

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.

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German-speaking Community of Belgium

The German-speaking Community of Belgium (Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft Belgiens, DG; Communauté germanophone de Belgique; Duitstalige Gemeenschap van België) or Eastern Belgium (Ostbelgien; Belgique de l'est; Oost-België) is one of the three federal communities of Belgium.

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German-speaking electoral college

The German-speaking electoral college is one of three constituencies of the European Parliament in Belgium.

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Groen (political party)

Groen (English: Green; Groen), founded as Agalev (see name-section below), is a green political party in Belgium.

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Gwendolyn Rutten

Gwendolyn Angeline Albert Maria Rutten (born 26 June 1975) is a Belgian politician.

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Hugo Coveliers

Hugo F.V. Coveliers (born 21 February 1947) is a retired Belgian politician and lawyer.

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International Workers' League (Belgium)

International Workers' League (Internationale Arbeidersliga; Ligue Internationale des Travailleurs) is a small Belgian Trotskyist party of Morenist tradtition.

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Jean-Marie Dedecker

Jean-Marie Louis Dedecker (born 13 June 1952) is a Belgian Flemish politician.

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Joëlle Milquet

Joëlle F.G.M. Milquet (born 17 February 1961 in Montignies-sur-Sambre, Charleroi) is a Belgian politician from the Humanist Democratic Centre (CDH).

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Johan Van Hecke

Johan Jozef Marie Clara Van Hecke (born 2 December 1954 in Ghent) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Flanders with the Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade.

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John Crombez

John Crombez (born 19 September 1973) is a Belgian politician.

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Left Socialist Party (Belgium)

The Left Socialist Party - Socialist Party of Struggle (Linkse Socialistische Partij, Parti Socialiste de Lutte, LSP-PSL) is a Belgian Trotskyist party, affiliated to the Committee for a Workers' International.

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Liège

Liège (Lidje; Luik,; Lüttich) is a major Walloon city and municipality and the capital of the Belgian province of Liège. The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east of Belgium, not far from borders with the Netherlands (Maastricht is about to the north) and with Germany (Aachen is about north-east). At Liège, the Meuse meets the River Ourthe. The city is part of the sillon industriel, the former industrial backbone of Wallonia. It still is the principal economic and cultural centre of the region. The Liège municipality (i.e. the city proper) includes the former communes of Angleur, Bressoux, Chênée, Glain, Grivegnée, Jupille-sur-Meuse, Rocourt, and Wandre. In November 2012, Liège had 198,280 inhabitants. The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of 1,879 km2 (725 sq mi) and had a total population of 749,110 on 1 January 2008. Population of all municipalities in Belgium on 1 January 2008. Retrieved on 2008-10-19. Definitions of metropolitan areas in Belgium. The metropolitan area of Liège is divided into three levels. First, the central agglomeration (agglomeratie) with 480,513 inhabitants (2008-01-01). Adding the closest surroundings (banlieue) gives a total of 641,591. And, including the outer commuter zone (forensenwoonzone) the population is 810,983. Retrieved on 2008-10-19. This includes a total of 52 municipalities, among others, Herstal and Seraing. Liège ranks as the third most populous urban area in Belgium, after Brussels and Antwerp, and the fourth municipality after Antwerp, Ghent and Charleroi.

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Liberal Appeal

The Liberal Appeal (Liberaal Appèl, LA) was a Flemish conservative-liberal political party.

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Liberal conservatism

Liberal conservatism is a political ideology combining conservative policies with liberal stances, especially on ethical and social issues, or a brand of political conservatism strongly influenced by liberalism.

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Liberal Party (Belgium)

The Liberal Party (Liberale Partij, Parti libéral) was a Belgian political party that existed from 1846 until 1961, when it became the Party for Freedom and Progress, Partij voor Vrijheid en Vooruitgang/Parti de la Liberté et du Progrès or PVV-PLP, under the leadership of Omer Vanaudenhove.

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Liberal Reformist Party

The Liberal Reformist Party (Parti Réformateur Libéral, PRL) was a liberal political party active in the Walloon Region and Brussels in Belgium.

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Liberalism in Belgium

This article gives an overview of liberalism in Belgium.

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Libertair, Direct, Democratisch

Libertarian, Direct, Democratic (Libertair, Direct, Democratisch; LDD) is a conservative-liberal, libertarian, and right-wing populist Flemish political party in Belgium.

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List of ruling political parties by country

This is a list of ruling political parties by country, in the form of a table with a link to an overview of political parties in each country and showing which party system is dominant in each country.

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Maoism

Maoism, known in China as Mao Zedong Thought, is a political theory derived from the teachings of the Chinese political leader Mao Zedong, whose followers are known as Maoists.

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Marxism

Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation.

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Meyrem Almaci

Meyrem Almaci (born 25 February 1976) is a Flemish politician and member of the ecological party Groen.

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Mischaël Modrikamen

Mischaël Modrikamen (born 22 February 1966) is a Belgian lawyer and politician.

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Mons

Mons (Bergen; Mont; Mont) is a Walloon city and municipality, and the capital of the Belgian province of Hainaut.

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Mouvement des Citoyens pour le Changement

Citizens' Movement for Change (Mouvement des Citoyens pour le Changement, MCC) is a Christian democratic political party in the French Community of Belgium founded by Gérard Deprez in 1998.

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Mouvement Réformateur

The Reformist Movement (Mouvement Réformateur, MR) is a liberal and conservative-liberal French-speaking political party in Belgium.

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Multi-party system

A multi-party system is a system in which multiple political parties across the political spectrum run for national election, and all have the capacity to gain control of government offices, separately or in coalition.

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National Force (Belgium)

The National Force (Force Nationale) is a small Belgian francophone far right party.

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National Front (Belgium)

The National Front (Front national) was a francophone Belgian far-right political party.

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New Flemish Alliance

The New Flemish Alliance (Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie, N-VA) is a Flemish nationalist and conservative political party in Belgium, founded in 2001.

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Olivier Chastel

Olivier Chastel (born in Liège on 22 November 1964) is a Belgian politician and a member of the Liberal Party "Mouvement Réformateur" (MR).

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Olivier Maingain

Olivier D. A. Gh.

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Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten

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Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region

The Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (French: Parlement de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Dutch: Parlement van het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is the governing body of the Brussels-Capital Region, one of the three regions of Belgium.

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Parliament of the French Community

The Parliament of the French Community (Parlement de la Communauté française or PCF) is the legislative assembly of the French Community of Belgium based in the Quartier Royal.

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Parliament of the German-speaking Community

The Parliament of the German-speaking Community (Parlament der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft or PDG) is the legislative assembly of the German-speaking Community of Belgium based in Eupen.

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Parliament of Wallonia

The Parliament of Wallonia (Parlement de Wallonie), formerly the Walloon Parliament (Parlement wallon) and previously the Walloon Regional Council (Conseil régional wallon), is one of the three self-governing regions of Belgium (the other two being Flanders and the Brussels-Capital Region).

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Partei für Freiheit und Fortschritt

The Party for Freedom and Progress (Partei für Freiheit und Fortschritt, PFF) is a regional liberal political party in the German-speaking Community of Belgium.

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Parti Socialiste (Belgium)

The Socialist Party (Parti socialiste, PS) is a social-democratic French-speaking political party in Belgium.

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Party of European Socialists

The Party of European Socialists (PES) is a social-democratic European political party.

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People's Party (Belgium)

The People's Party (Parti populaire, Personenpartij), abbreviated to PP, is a political party in Belgium.

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People's Union (Belgium)

People's Union (Volksunie, VU) was a Flemish nationalist political party in Belgium, formed in 1954 as a successor to the Christian Flemish People's Union.

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Peter Mertens

Peter Mertens (born 17 December 1969) is a Belgian author and politician of the Workers' Party of Belgium (PVDA-PTB).

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Pim Fortuyn

Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn (19 February 1948 – 6 May 2002), was a Dutch politician, civil servant, sociologist, author and professor who formed his own party, Pim Fortuyn List (Lijst Pim Fortuyn or LPF) in 2002.

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Pirate Party (Belgium)

The Pirate Party of Belgium (Piratenpartij, Parti Pirate) is a political party in Belgium.

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Political parties in Flanders

Flemish political parties operate in the whole Flemish Community, which covers the unilingual Flemish Region and the bilingual Brussels-Capital Region.

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Political party

A political party is an organised group of people, often with common views, who come together to contest elections and hold power in government.

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Politics of Belgium

The politics of Belgium take place in the framework of a federal, representative democratic, constitutional monarchy.

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Politics of Flanders

Flanders is both a cultural community and an economic region within the Belgian state, and has significant autonomy.

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Politics of Wallonia

The Politics of Wallonia concern the government of Wallonia, that is the southern Region of Belgium.

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Pro Bruxsel

Pro Bruxsel is a regional party in Brussels, the capital of Belgium and of Europe.

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ProDG (Belgium)

ProDG (Pro Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft), is a regionalist and Christian-democratic political party active in the German-speaking community of Belgium.

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Progressivism

Progressivism is the support for or advocacy of improvement of society by reform.

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Rassemblement Wallonie France

The Rassemblement Wallonie France (Rally Wallonia France, RWF) is a small political party in Belgium.

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Red!

Red! (Dutch: Rood! or ROOD!) is a Flemish socialist political party in Belgium.

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Revolutionary Communist League (Belgium)

The Anticapitalist Left (la Gauche anticapitaliste, GA), also known as the Socialist Workers' Party (Socialistische Arbeiderspartij, SAP), is a Belgian Trotskyist political party.

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Sociaal-Liberale Partij

Sociaal-Liberale Partij (SLP; Dutch for Social Liberal Party) was a Belgian Flemish political party formed after dissolution of the moderate nationalist People's Union (Volksunie) party.

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Social Democratic Party of Germany

The Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, SPD) is a social-democratic political party in Germany.

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Socialist Party (France)

The Socialist Party (Parti socialiste, PS) is a social-democratic political party in France, and the largest party of the French centre-left.

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Socialistische Partij Anders

Socialist Party Differently (sp.a) is a social-democratic Flemish political party in Belgium.

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Tom Van Grieken

Tom Jozef Irène Van Grieken (born 7 October 1986) is a Belgian politician who has been the leader of Vlaams Belang since 2014.

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Trotskyism

Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky.

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Union des Francophones

The Union of Francophones (Union des Francophones, UF) is a political party in Belgium that participates as electoral lists in regional, provincial, and municipal elections in the Flemish Province of Flemish Brabant.

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Vivant

Vivant is a small Belgian social liberal political party in Belgium founded by millionaire Roland Duchâtelet.

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Vlaams Belang

Vlaams Belang (VB; Dutch for "Flemish Interest") is a right-wing populist and Flemish nationalist political party in the Flemish Region and Brussels of Belgium.

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Vlaams Blok

The Vlaams Blok (Flemish Block, or VB) was a Belgian far-right and secessionist political party with an anti-immigration platform.

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VLOTT

VLOTT is a minor Belgian right-wing liberal or fortuynist political party.

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Wallonia

Wallonia (Wallonie, Wallonie(n), Wallonië, Walonreye, Wallounien) is a region of Belgium.

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Walloon Rally

The Walloon Rally (Rassemblement wallon; RW) is a regionalist political party in Belgium, active in Wallonia since 1968.

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Ward Beysen

Eduard Marie August "Ward" Beysen (26 June 1941 – 14 January 2005) was a Belgian politician and well-known freemason.

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Willy Claes

Willem Werner Hubert "Willy" Claes (born 24 November 1938) is a former Belgian politician who served as the eighth Secretary General of NATO, from 1994 to 1995.

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Workers' Party of Belgium

The Workers' Party of Belgium (Partij van de Arbeid van België, PVDA; Parti du Travail de Belgique, PTB; stylized as PVDA+/PTB-GO!) is a far-left political party in Belgium that operates as a single Belgian party, in contrast to most other Belgian political parties, which are either Flemish or Francophone.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Wouter Beke

Wouter Beke (born 9 August 1974) is a Belgian politician and a member of the CD&V.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_parties_in_Belgium

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