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Following the 2024 Belgian federal and regional elections, Government formation talks began on 10 June.Incumbent Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has announced his resignation [1] and his party's leader Tom Ongena has declared that Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats would not be a part of the next federal government.
The results saw the New Flemish Alliance remain the largest party in parliament, while the incumbent coalition government led by Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and his Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats held on to its majority by only one seat, despite the latter party falling to ninth place in the election tally.
The government reflects the weight of political parties that constitute the current governing coalition for the Chamber. No single party or party family across linguistic lines holds an absolute majority of seats in Parliament. Under current practice, no party family can win enough seats to govern alone, let alone win a majority.
The Government was formed following the 2024 Belgian government formation consisting of parties N-VA, Vooruit and CD&V, making up a majority of 65 seats in the 124 seat Flemish Parliament. N-VA ministers are Matthias Diependaele , Zuhal Demir , Ben Weyts , Cieltje Van Achter and Annick De Ridder .
10 March – Belgium banned TikTok from all federal government work devices over cybersecurity, privacy, and misinformation concerns. [3]5 May – Belgian authorities arrest an Iraqi Al-Qaeda member and charge him with murder, terrorism, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, for his role in the deaths of at least 376 people and the wounding of over 2,300 others more than a decade ago in Iraq.
The Government of the German-speaking Community is the executive branch of the German-speaking Community. Following the 9 June 224 election , ProDG (8 seats) and PFF (3 seats) now formed a coalition with the CSP (5 seats) instead of the PS , which moved to the opposition for the first time since 1990.
The De Croo Government is the incumbent Federal Government of Belgium, led by Prime Minister Alexander De Croo since 1 October 2020. It has acted in a caretaker capacity since the resignation of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo on 10 June 2024, following the 2024 Belgian federal election .
In Belgium, aside from a few minor German-speaking parties, most political parties are either Dutch-speaking (Flemish) or French-speaking; the only major bilingual party operating across all of Belgium is the Workers Party of Belgium (PVDA/PTB), [8] a far-left party which first won seats in the Chamber in 2014 and as of 2019 has three seats in ...