Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region
Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region | |
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since 7 May 2013 | |
Term length | Five years |
Inaugural holder | Charles Picqué |
Formation | 12 June 1989 |
Politics and government of Brussels |
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The minister-president of the Brussels Capital-Region (French: Ministre-président de la région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Dutch: Minister-president van het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest) leads the government of the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium.[1][2] The post is appointed for five years along with four ministers and three "state" secretaries. While being the leader of the Brussels Government, the minister-president also is the president of the college of the Common Community Commission.
The minister-president of the Brussels-Capital Region should not be confused with either the Governor of Brussels-Capital nor with the mayor of the City of Brussels, which is one of the 19 municipalities of Brussels.
The minister-president is not counted in the ratio of French-speaking to Dutch-speaking ministers. In practice, every minister-president has been a francophone, though bilingual.
List of officeholders
[edit]No. | Portrait | Name (Born–Died) |
Term of office | Party | Government | Coalition | |||
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Dutch-speaking | French-speaking | ||||||||
Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||||
1 | Charles Picqué (1948– ) |
12 July 1989 | 15 July 1999 | 10 years,
3 days |
PS | Picqué I | CVP, SP, VU | PS, PSC, FDF | |
Picqué II | PS, PRL-FDF | ||||||||
2 | Jacques Simonet (1963–2007) |
15 July 1999 | 18 October 2000 | 1 year,
94 days |
PRL | Simonet I | CVP, VLD, SP | PRL-FDF, PS | |
3 | François-Xavier de Donnea (1941– ) |
18 October 2000 | 6 June 2003 | 2 years,
232 days |
PRL/MR | de Donnea | CVP, VLD, SP | PRL-FDF, PS | |
4 | Daniel Ducarme (1954–2010) |
6 June 2003 | 18 February 2004 | 1 year,
43 days |
MR | Ducarme | CD&V, VLD, SP | MR, PS | |
5 | Jacques Simonet (1963–2007) |
18 February 2004 | 19 July 2004 | MR | Simonet II | CD&V, VLD, SP | MR, PS | ||
6 | Charles Picqué (1948– ) |
19 July 2004 | 7 May 2013 | 8 years,
291 days |
PS | Picqué III | VLD, sp.a, CD&V | PS, cdH, Ecolo | |
Picqué IV | Open VLD, CD&V, Groen | ||||||||
7 | Rudi Vervoort (1958– ) |
7 May 2013 | Incumbent | 11 years, 212 days | PS | Vervoort I | Open VLD, CD&V, Groen | PS, Ecolo, cdH | |
Vervoort II | Open VLD, sp.a, CD&V | PS, DéFI, cdH | |||||||
Vervoort III | Groen, Open VLD, sp.a | PS, Ecolo, DéFI |
Timeline
[edit]See also
[edit]- Prime Minister of Belgium
- Minister-President of Flanders
- Minister-President of the French Community
- Minister-President of the German-speaking Community
- Minister-President of Wallonia
References
[edit]- ^ "The Belgian Constitution (English version)" (PDF). Belgian House of Representatives. January 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
Article 3: Belgium comprises three Regions: the Flemish Region, the Walloon Region and the Brussels region. Article 4: Belgium comprises four linguistic regions: the Dutch-speaking region, the French speaking region, the bilingual region of Brussels-Capital and the German-speaking region.
- ^ "Brussels-Capital Region: Creation". Centre d'Informatique pour la Région Bruxelloise (Brussels Regional Informatics Center). 2009. Archived from the original on 29 April 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
Since 18 June 1989, the date of the first regional elections, the Brussels-Capital Region has been an autonomous region comparable to the Flemish and Walloon Regions.
(All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.)
External links
[edit]- Brussels-Capital Region. Brussels Regional Informatics Center