Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region

Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region
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Incumbent Rudi Vervoort since 7 May 2013
Term length	Five years
Inaugural holder	Charles Picqué
Formation	12 June 1989

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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) is the person leading the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region.^[1][2] The post is appointed for 5 years along with 4 ministers and 3 "state" secretaries. While being the leader of the Government, the Minister-President also is the president of the college of the Common Community Commission of Brussels.

The Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region should neither be confused with 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

No.	Portrait	Name (Born–Died)	Term of office			Party	Government	Coalition
								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	10 years, 306 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

See also

• 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

External links

• Brussels-Capital Region. Brussels Regional Informatics Center

This page was last edited on 8 March 2024, at 13:58