Liberal Reformist Party Citizens' Movement for Change Democratic Front of Francophones (2002–2010)
Headquarters
National Secretariat Avenue de la Toison D'Or 84-86 1060 Brussels, Belgium
Think tank
Centre Jean Gol
Ideology
Liberalism[1][2][3]
Conservative liberalism[4][5]
Political position
Centre-right[6][7]
Regional affiliation
Liberal Group[8]
European affiliation
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
International affiliation
Liberal International
European Parliament group
Renew Europe
Flemish counterpart
Open VLD
German-speaking counterpart
Party for Freedom and Progress
Colours
Blue
Chamber of Representatives (French-speaking seats)
14 / 61
Senate (French-speaking seats)
8 / 24
Walloon Parliament
20 / 75
Parliament of the French Community
30 / 94
Parliament of the German-speaking Community
3 / 25
Brussels Parliament (French-speaking seats)
18 / 72
European Parliament (French-speaking seats)
2 / 8
Benelux Parliament
2 / 21
Website
www.mr.be
Politics of Belgium
Political parties
Elections
The Reformist Movement[9][10] (French: Mouvement Réformateur, MR) is a liberal[1][2][3] French-speaking political party in Belgium. MR is traditionally a conservative-liberal party,[4][5] but it also contains social-liberal factions.[11][12][13]
The party was in coalition as part of the Michel Government and then the Wilmès Government from October 2014, having provided two prime ministers since. After the 2007 general election the MR was the largest Francophone political formation in Belgium, a position that was regained by the Socialist Party in the 2010 general election. It currently serves as part of the seven party De Croo Government.
The MR is an alliance between three French-speaking and one German-speaking liberal parties. The Liberal Reformist Party (PRL) and the Francophone Democratic Federalists (FDF) started the alliance in 1993, and were joined in 1998 by the Citizens' Movement for Change (MCC). The alliance was then known as the PRL-FDF-MCC federation. The alliance became the MR during a congress in 2002, where the German-speaking liberal party, the Party for Freedom and Progress joined as well.[14] The label PRL is no longer used, and the three other parties still use their own names. The MR is a member of Liberal International and the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) Party. However, on 25 September 2011, the FDF decided to leave the coalition. They did not agree with the manner in which president Charles Michel defended the rights of the French-speaking people in the agreement concerning the splitting of the Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde district, during the 2010–11 Belgian government formation.[15]
^ abNordsieck, Wolfram (2019). "Wallonia/Belgium". Parties and Elections in Europe.
^ abAlmeida, Dimitri. "Liberal Parties and European Integration" (PDF).
^ abColin Hay; Anand Menon (18 January 2007). European Politics. Oxford University Press. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-19-928428-3.
^ abHans Slomp (30 September 2011). Europe, A Political Profile: An American Companion to European Politics. ABC-CLIO. p. 465. ISBN 978-0-313-39182-8. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
^ abPeter Starke; Alexandra Kaasch; Franca Van Hooren (7 May 2013). The Welfare State as Crisis Manager: Explaining the Diversity of Policy Responses to Economic Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 192. ISBN 978-1-137-31484-0.
^Josep M. Colomer (2008). Comparative European Politics. Taylor & Francis. p. 220. ISBN 978-0-203-94609-1. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
^Rik Pinxten (2006). "Neo-nationalism and Democracy in Belgium: On understanding the contexts of neo-communitarianism". In André Gingrich; Marcus Banks (eds.). Neo-nationalism in Europe and Beyond: Perspectives from Social Anthropology. Berghahn Books. p. 131. ISBN 978-1-84545-190-5.
^"Politieke fracties". Benelux Parliament (in Dutch). Retrieved 8 August 2023.
^Walsh, David (2 October 2020). "Belgium: New seven-party coalition government officially sworn in". Euronews. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
^Birnbaum, Michael (20 December 2019). "Without a government for a year, Belgium shows what happens to politics without politicians". The Washington Post. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
^Chardon, Frédéric. "Des libéraux veulent créer un courant progressiste au MR: avec Christine Defraigne à leur tête?". La Libre.be (in French). Retrieved 2022-01-02.
^"RLP, le nouveau «Rassemblement des libéraux progressistes» au sein du MR". Le Soir (in French). 2019-11-26. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
^Dimitri Almeida (2012). The Impact of European Integration on Political Parties: Beyond the Permissive Consensus. Routledge. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-415-69374-5.
^"Le Mouvement Réformateur: Statuts" (PDF) (in French). The Reformist Movement. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-07-08.
^"FDF almost unanimously votes in favour of split with MR" (in Dutch). deredactie.be. 25 September 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-25.
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