Talk:Politics of Belgium: Difference between revisions

members of cabinet should be updated according to reshuffle in 2004

see: Offical list from Belgian Governement

I updated the list of political parties due to recent reshuffling I didn't delete the old values, just added the new ones

To do ...

... Summarizing the so-called "political parties" section and moving details and list of parties in Political parties in Belgium, and cleanung up the so-called "other" section. --Edcolins 22:35, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)

Party 'President'

Shouldn't it be party chairman instead? Wouter Lievens 12:16, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Reword...

Can we reword this Paragraph, Id do it, but im having trouble finding the meaning...

Belgium does not have elections similar to presidential elections, where only one person can be elected; rather, seats in the parliament, city council or similar are elected, the occupants of which then vote who gets to be prime minister, mayor, governor, etc. This is probably one of the reasons why Belgium does not have a two-party political system, but that there are more than two influential parties per language region.

Keeperoftheseal 16:02, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Multicameralism?

Has Belgium a bicameral parliament (Chamber and Senate), or has it officially a heptacameral parliament (Federal Chamber, Senate, Flemish Parliament, Walloon Parliament, Brussels Parliament, Chamber of the French Community and Chamber of the German Community)? According to the subsidiarity treaty (subsidiariteitsbeginsel) which describes every parliament as a Chamber of the Belgian parliament, in order to weigh heavier on EU-politics ...; anyway, I'm not sure, but I heard it somewhere, somewhen ... --Lord Snoeckx 19:49, 27 December 2006 (UTC)