The Wilmès II Government was a minority

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, led by

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, the first female Prime Minister of Belgium. Wilmès had been selected as a caretaker prime minister following the 2019 Belgian federal election, and headed the Wilmès I Government, a minority government with the same party composition as the previous Michel II Government, from 27 October 2019. On 17 March 2020, the opposition parties

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, PS,

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agreed to give Wilmès the plenary powers needed to deal with the

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in Belgium, for a period of three months. This was later extended until mid-September 2020, and then 1 October 2020, to allow completion of the 2019–20 Belgian government formation. Upon the end of the process, the Wilmès II Government was replaced by the

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Composition

The composition of the government was identical to that of the last composition of

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