Political parties in Belgium agreed on the broad coalition government which was formed last Sunday after almost eight months of grueling negotiation over the win by the Flemish nationalist party, N-VA, during the June 2024 elections. According to the report of VRT News, the new government will be led by the head of the party N-VA, Bart De Wever, who will reportedly be Belgium’s next prime minister.
The coalition will consist of five parties from both the Dutch-speaking north and the French-speaking south. The grouping comprises Christian democrats, socialists, liberals, and center parties that will push through the political impasse. Unfortunately, the far-right Vlaams Belang party, although winning the second-most number of seats in the election, was left out of the negotiations. Following is the decision the country made; Belgium had avoided working with anti-immigrant and anti-EU party that aimed at splitting their country.
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Primarily, due to budget cut, tax raising, and pensions reform, protracted coalition negotiation has been paralyzed. De Wever, in N-VA, was aggressively pushing for some of these economic measures that can help address fiscally precarious government.
Belgian’s political face requires coalition formation mainly because this nation is politically divided into distinct regions with specific linguistic preferences. A new and the most influential coalitional establishment emerged as one crucial step of governance stabilization as well after electoral victories of the party N-VA.
