Minister-President of Flanders

The Minister-President of Flanders ( nl, Minister-president van Vlaanderen) is the head of the Flemish Government, which is the executive branch of the Flemish Region and Flemish Community.See the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium.

The incumbent officeholder is Jan Jambon, who took over from Liesbeth Homans, the interim minister-president, following the 2019 Belgian regional elections. A new agreement to form a government between the three same parties, the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V) and the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats (Open Vld), was obtained on 30 September 2019. The ministers were sworn in on 2 October 2019. The government consists of nine ministers, four for the N-VA, three for CD&V and two for the Open Vld.

Appointment

Following the election of the Flemish Parliament, a Flemish Government is formed with a maximum of eleven ministers. The largest party in the government coalition may choose the minister-president. Following the oath of office of all ministers before the Flemish Parliament, the minister-president alone takes the oath of office before the King as well.

Regional elections are held every 5 years. The Flemish Parliament was elected directly for the first time in 1995. Prior to 1995, the members of the Flemish Parliament were the members of the Dutch language group of the Federal Parliament of Belgium.

File:Hôtel Errera 1.JPG, The Errera House, the official residence of the Minister-President of Flanders and his ministers
File:Het Martelarenplein te Brussel.jpg, The cabinet offices are located at the Place des Martyrs/Martelaarsplein in Brussels

List of officeholders

Timeline

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from: 11/06/2003 till: 20/07/2004 color:liberal text:" Somers" fontsize:10
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from: 02/07/2019 till: 01/10/2019 color:nva text:" Homans" fontsize:10
from: 02/10/2019 till: 21/11/2022 color:nva text:" Jambon" fontsize:10

Living former minister-presidents

Minister-Presidents often go on to join the Belgian Federal Government: most notably, Patrick Dewael and Kris Peeters were appointed to a federal ministership, while Yves Leterme became Prime Minister of Belgium.

See also

* Prime Minister of Belgium
* Minister-President of the Brussels Capital-Region
* Minister-President of the French Community
* Minister-President of the German-speaking Community
* Minister-President of Wallonia
* Politics of Flanders
* Flemish Parliament
* Flemish Government

References

{{Governments of Belgium

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1981 establishments in Belgium
Politics of Flanders
Lists of political office-holders in Belgium