Mouvement Réformateur
| Reformist Movement Mouvement Réformateur |
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| President | Olivier Chastel |
| Founded | 21 March 2002 |
| Preceded by | Liberal Reformist Party Citizens' Movement for Change |
| Headquarters | National Secretariat Avenue de la Toison D'Or 84-86 1060 Brussels, Belgium |
| Ideology | Liberalism[1][2] Conservative liberalism |
| Political position | Centre-right[3] |
| European affiliation | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |
| International affiliation | Liberal International |
| European Parliament group | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |
| Flemish counterpart | Open VLD |
| Colours | Blue |
| Chamber of Representatives (French-speaking seats) |
20 / 63
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| Senate (French-speaking seats) |
8 / 24
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| Walloon Parliament |
25 / 75
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| Parliament of the French Community |
30 / 94
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| Brussels Parliament (French-speaking seats) |
18 / 72
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| European Parliament (French-speaking seats) |
3 / 8
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| Website | |
| www.mr.be | |
| Politics of Belgium Political parties Elections |
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The Reformist Movement (French: Mouvement Réformateur, MR) is a liberal[1][4] and conservative-liberal[5][6] French-speaking political party in Belgium. The party is in coalition as part of the Michel Government since October 2014, providing the current Prime Minister of Belgium Charles Michel. From 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.
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.[7] The label PRL is no longer used, and the three other parties still use their own names. The MR is 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 2010–2011 Belgian government formation.[8]
Though the MR's original ideology emphasised classical liberalism and free market economics, it has of late joined the general trend of Belgian liberals to accept elements of social liberalism under the influence of Dirk Verhofstadt, whose brother Guy Verhofstadt led the MR's Flemish counterpart, the Open VLD.[9]
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2007 general election
In the 10 June 2007 general elections, MR won 23 out of 150 seats in the Chamber of Representatives and 6 out of 40 seats in the Senate.
2010 general election
In the 13 June 2010 general elections, MR won 18 out of 150 seats in the Chamber of Representatives and 4 out of 40 seats in the Senate. After the long government formation process, on 6 December 2011 the Di Rupo I Government was formed with MR as one of the six constituent parties.
2014 election
In the federal, regional and European elections on May 25, 2014, MR won 20 seats in the Chamber of Representatives, 25 seats in the Walloon Parliament, 18 seats in the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region, and 3 out of 21 seats in the European Parliament.
Election results
Federal Parliament
| Chamber of Representatives (Chambre des Représentants) | |||||||
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
% of language group vote |
# of overall seats won |
# of language group seats won |
+/– | Government |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 630,219 | 10.1 |
18 / 150
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18 / 59
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in coalition | ||
| 2003 | 748,954 | 11.4 |
24 / 150
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24 / 62
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 6 |
in coalition | |
| 2007 | 835,073 | 12.5 |
23 / 150
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23 / 62
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 1 |
in coalition | |
| 2010 | 605,617 | 9.3 |
18 / 150
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18 / 62
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5 |
in coalition | |
| 2014 | 650,260 | 9.64 |
20 / 150
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20 / 63
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2 |
in coalition | |
| Senate (Sénat) | |||||||
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
% of language group vote |
# of overall seats won |
# of language group seats won |
+/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 654,961 | 10.6 |
5 / 40
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5 / 15
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| 2003 | 795,757 | 12.2 |
5 / 40
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5 / 15
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 0 |
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| 2007 | 815,755 | 12.3 |
6 / 40
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6 / 15
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1 |
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| 2010 | 599,618 | 9.3 |
4 / 40
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4 / 15
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2 |
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Regional parliaments
Brussels Parliament
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
% of language group vote |
# of overall seats won |
# of language group seats won |
+/– | Government |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 83,011 | 18.9 (#2) |
15 / 75
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in opposition | |||
| 1995 | 144,478 | 35.0 (#1) |
28 / 75
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13 |
in coalition | ||
| 1999 | 146,845 | 34.4 (#1) |
27 / 75
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27 / 64
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1 |
in coalition | |
| 2004 | 127,122 | 32.5 (#2) |
25 / 89
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25 / 72
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2 |
in opposition | |
| 2009 | 121,905 | 29.8 (#1) |
24 / 89
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24 / 72
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1 |
in opposition | |
| 2014 | 94.227 | 23.04 (#2) |
18 / 89
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18 / 72
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6 |
in opposition | |
Walloon Parliament
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
% of language group vote |
# of overall seats won |
# of language group seats won |
+/– | Government |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 447,542 | 23.7 (#2) |
19 / 75
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in opposition | |||
| 1999 | 470,454 | 24.7 (#2) |
21 / 75
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2 |
in coalition | ||
| 2004 | 478,999 | 24.3 (#2) |
20 / 75
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1 |
in opposition | ||
| 2009 | 469,792 | 23.4 (#2) |
19 / 75
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1 |
in opposition | ||
| 2014 | 546.363 | 26.7 (#2) |
25 / 75
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6 |
in opposition | ||
European Parliament
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
% of language group vote |
# of overall seats won |
# of language group seats won |
+/– |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 372,904 | 17.8 (#4) |
2 / 24
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2 / 11
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| 1984 | 540,610 | 24.1 (#2) |
3 / 24
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3 / 11
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1 |
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| 1989 | 423,479 | 18.9 (#3) |
2 / 24
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2 / 11
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1 |
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| 1994 | 541,724 | 24.3 (#2) |
3 / 25
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3 / 10
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1 |
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| 1999 | 624,445 | 27.0 (#1) |
3 / 25
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3 / 10
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0 |
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| 2004 | 671,422 | 27.6 (#2) |
3 / 24
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3 / 9
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0 |
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| 2009 | 640,092 | 26.1 (#2) |
2 / 22
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2 / 8
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1 |
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| 2014 | 661.332 | 27.1 (#2) |
3 / 22
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2 / 8
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1 |
Notable figures
- Alain Destexhe
- Daniel Ducarme
- Antoine Duquesne
- Jean Gol
- Jacques Simonet
- Sabine Laruelle
- Charles Michel
- Louis Michel
- Didier Reynders
See also
- Liberalism
- Liberalism in Belgium
- Contributions to liberal theory
- Liberalism worldwide
- Liberal Archive
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Parties and Elections in Europe: The database about parliamentary elections and political parties in Europe, by Wolfram Nordsieck
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