Belgium will have a new government almost 500 days after the elections in May 2019. On Wednesday, seven parties reached an agreement to form a coalition to be led by Flemish liberal Alexander De Croo, who will take up the post of prime minister on Thursday. The main parties that will make up the coalition are the liberals, the socialists, the environmentalists (both French-speaking and Flemish-speaking) and the Flemish-speaking Christian Democrats. It was called “Vivaldi” from the name of the composer Antonio Vivaldi and from his opera “The four seasons”, with reference to the four colors of the main parties of the coalition: red, orange, green and blue.
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Belgium since 26 May 2019, the date of the last elections, has been led by a provisional government, led by the French-speaking liberal Sophie Wilmes, supported by a minority coalition that was supported by the opposition during the management of the coronavirus epidemic. However, the political crisis began in December 2018 when the then Prime Minister, Charles Michel, resigned due to internal tensions related mostly to the issue of immigration, and after the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), right-wing Flemish independence party, he had left the government. In the new government there will be neither the Nieuw-Vlaamse, which in the 2019 elections had been the most voted party, with 16 per cent, nor the extreme right of the Flemish Interest (Vlaams Belang), which obtained 12 per one hundred.
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