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The Chamber of Representatives (Dutch:, Chambre des représentants, Abgeordnetenkammer) is one of the two chambers in the bicameral Federal Parliament of Belgium, the other being the Senate.[1]

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  1. 117 relations: Ahmed Laaouej, Antwerp Province, Arrondissement of Halle-Vilvoorde, Arrondissement of Leuven, Barbara Pas, Bart De Wever, Belgian Chamber Committee on Justice, Belgian Chamber Committee on Naturalisations, Belgian Chamber Committee on the Interior, Belgian Federal Parliament, Belgium, Bicameralism, Brussels, Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde, Casting vote, Catherine Fonck, Centre-left politics, Centre-right politics, Centrism, Christian democracy, Christian Democratic and Flemish, Communities, regions, and language areas of Belgium, Conference of Parliamentary Committees for Union Affairs, Constitution of Belgium, Constitutional Court (Belgium), Council of State (Belgium), Council of the European Union, D'Hondt method, DéFI, De Croo Government, Dutch language, East Flanders, Ecolo, Egbert Lachaert, Elections in Belgium, Electoral threshold, European Council, European Union, Far-left politics, Far-right politics, Federal Government of Belgium, Flemish Brabant, Flemish Movement, Georges-Louis Bouchez, Green politics, Groen (political party), Hainaut Province, Hemicycle, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Lords, ... Expand index (67 more) »

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Ahmed Laaouej

Ahmed Laaouej (born 8 December 1969 in Liège, Belgium) is a Belgian politician.

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Antwerp Province

Antwerp Province (Provincie Antwerpen, Province d'Anvers, Provinz Antwerpen), between 1815 and 1830 known as Central Brabant (Midden-Brabant, Brabant-Central, Mittel-Brabant), is the northernmost province both of the Flemish Region, also called Flanders, and of Belgium.

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Arrondissement of Halle-Vilvoorde

The Halle-Vilvoorde Arrondissement is one of the two administrative arrondissements in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant.

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Arrondissement of Leuven

The Leuven Arrondissement is one of two arrondissements in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant.

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Barbara Pas

Barbara Pas (born 1 March 1981) is a Belgian politician and a member of the Chamber of Representatives for Vlaams Belang.

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Bart De Wever

Bart Albert Liliane De Wever (born 21 December 1970) is a Belgian politician.

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Belgian Chamber Committee on Justice

The Committee on Justice (Commissie voor de Justitie, Commission de la Justice) is a standing committee of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives.

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Belgian Chamber Committee on Naturalisations

The Naturalisations Committee (Commissie voor de Naturalisaties, Commission des Naturalisations) is a special committee of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives responsible for deciding upon applications for naturalisation.

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Belgian Chamber Committee on the Interior

The Committee on the Interior, General Affairs and the Civil Service (Commissie voor de Binnenlandse Zaken, de Algemene Zaken en het Openbaar Ambt, Commission de l'Intérieur, des Affaires générales et de la Fonction publique), more commonly referred to as the Committee on the Interior, is a standing committee of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives.

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Belgian Federal Parliament

The Federal Parliament is the bicameral parliament of Belgium. Chamber of Representatives (Belgium) and Belgian Federal Parliament are 1831 establishments in Belgium.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

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Bicameralism

Bicameralism is a type of legislature that is divided into two separate assemblies, chambers, or houses, known as a bicameral legislature.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.

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Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde

Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde is a judicial arrondissement encompasses the bilingual—French and Dutch—Brussels-Capital Region, which coincides with the administrative arrondissement of Brussels-Capital and the surrounding Dutch-speaking area of Halle-Vilvoorde, which in turn coincides with the administrative arrondissement of Halle-Vilvoorde.

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Casting vote

A casting vote is a vote that someone may exercise to resolve a tied vote in a deliberative body.

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Catherine Fonck

Catherine Fonck (born 22 September 1968) is a nephrologist and Belgian politician.

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Centre-left politics

Centre-left politics is the range of left-wing political ideologies that lean closer to the political centre and broadly conform with progressivism.

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Centre-right politics

Centre-right politics is the set of right-wing political ideologies that lean closer to the political centre.

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Centrism

Centrism is the range of political ideologies that exist between left-wing politics and right-wing politics on the left–right political spectrum.

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Christian democracy

Christian democracy is a political ideology inspired by Christian social teaching to respond to the challenges of contemporary society and politics.

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Christian Democratic and Flemish

Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V) is a Flemish Christian-democratic political party in Belgium.

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Communities, regions, and language areas of Belgium

Belgium is a federal state comprising three communities and three regions that are based on four language areas.

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Conference of Parliamentary Committees for Union Affairs

The Conference of Parliamentary Committees for Union Affairs of Parliaments of the European Union (COSAC) is a conference of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and national Members of Parliament (MPs) who are drawn from parliamentary committees responsible for European Union affairs.

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Constitution of Belgium

The Constitution of Belgium (Belgische Grondwet, Constitution belge, Verfassung Belgiens) dates back to 1831.

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Constitutional Court (Belgium)

The Constitutional Court (Dutch:, Cour constitutionelle, Verfassungsgerichtshof) plays a central role within the federal Belgian state.

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Council of State (Belgium)

Council of State (Dutch:, Conseil d'État, Staatsrat), is the supreme administrative court of Belgium.

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Council of the European Union

The Council of the European Union, often referred to in the treaties and other official documents simply as the Council, and informally known as the Council of Ministers, is the third of the seven Institutions of the European Union (EU) as listed in the Treaty on European Union.

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D'Hondt method

The D'Hondt method, also called the Jefferson method or the greatest divisors method, is an apportionment method for allocating seats in parliaments among federal states, or in proportional representation among political parties.

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DéFI

DéFI (abbreviation of Démocrate fédéraliste indépendant) is a social-liberal and regionalist political party in Belgium mainly known for defending French-speakers' interests in and near the Brussels region.

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De Croo Government

The De Croo Government is the incumbent Federal Government of Belgium, led by Prime Minister Alexander De Croo since 1 October 2020.

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Dutch language

Dutch (Nederlands.) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language.

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East Flanders

East Flanders (Oost-Vlaanderen, Flandre-Orientale, Ostflandern, Ôost-Vloandern) is a province of Belgium.

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Ecolo

Ecolo, officially Écologistes Confédérés pour l'organisation de luttes originales (English: Confederate Ecologists for the Organisation of Original Struggles) is a French-speaking political party in Belgium based on green politics.

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Egbert Lachaert

Egbert R. Lachaert (born 4 July 1977, in Ghent) is a Belgian lawyer, politician and was party chairman of the Open VLD.

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Elections in Belgium

Elections in Belgium are organised for legislative bodies only, and not for executive functions.

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Electoral threshold

The electoral threshold, or election threshold, is the minimum share of all the votes cast that a candidate or political party requires to achieve before they become entitled to representation or additional seats in a legislature.

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European Council

The European Council (informally EUCO) is a collegiate body (directorial system) that defines the overall political direction and priorities of the European Union.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Far-left politics

Far-left politics, also known as extreme left politics or left-wing extremism, are politics further to the left on the left–right political spectrum than the standard political left.

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Far-right politics

Far-right politics, or right-wing extremism, is a spectrum of political thought that tends to be radically conservative, ultra-nationalist, and authoritarian, often also including nativist tendencies.

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Federal Government of Belgium

The Federal Government of Belgium (Federale regering, Gouvernement fédéral, Föderalregierung) exercises executive power in the Kingdom of Belgium. Chamber of Representatives (Belgium) and Federal Government of Belgium are 1831 establishments in Belgium.

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Flemish Brabant

Flemish Brabant (Vlaams-Brabant; Brabant flamand) is a province of Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium.

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Flemish Movement

The Flemish Movement (Vlaamse Beweging) is an umbrella term which encompasses various political groups in the Belgian region of Flanders and, less commonly, in French Flanders.

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Georges-Louis Bouchez

Georges-Louis Bouchez (GLB) (born 23 March 1986) is a Belgian politician and lawyer.

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Green politics

Green politics, or ecopolitics, is a political ideology that aims to foster an ecologically sustainable society often, but not always, rooted in environmentalism, nonviolence, social justice and grassroots democracy.

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Groen (political party)

Groen, founded as Agalev, is a green Flemish political party in Belgium.

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Hainaut Province

Hainaut (also,,; Henegouwen; Hinnot; Hénau), historically also known as Heynault in English, is a province of Wallonia and Belgium.

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Hemicycle

A hemicycle is a semicircular, or horseshoe-shaped, legislative debating chamber where members sit to discuss and vote on their business.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Chamber of Representatives (Belgium) and house of Commons of the United Kingdom are national lower houses.

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House of Lords

The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Kattrin Jadin

Kattrin Jadin (born 1 July 1980) is a Belgian judge.

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Kristof Calvo

Kristof Calvo y Castañer (born 30 January 1987) is a Belgian politician.

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies.

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Les Engagés (political party)

(LE) is a centrist French-speaking political party in Belgium.

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Liège Province

Liège (Lîdje; Luik; Lüttich) is the easternmost province of the Wallonia region of Belgium.

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Liberalism in Belgium

This article gives an overview of liberalism in Belgium.

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Limburg (Belgium)

Limburg (Limburg,; Limburg or Wes-Limburg; Limbourg), also known as Belgian Limburg, is a province in Belgium.

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List of members of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium, 2019–2024

This is a list of members of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives during the 55th legislature (2019–2024).

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List of presidents of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium

The president of the Chamber of Representatives (Voorzitter van de Kamer van Volksvertegenwoordigers, Président de la Chambre des Représentants) is the presiding officer of the lower house of the Federal Parliament of Belgium.

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List of presidents of the Senate (Belgium)

The president of the Senate (Voorzitter van de Senaat, Président du Sénat) is the presiding officer of the upper house of the Federal Parliament of Belgium.

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Lower house

A lower house is the lower chamber of a bicameral legislature, where second chamber is the upper house.

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Luxembourg (Belgium)

Luxembourg (Luxembourg; Luxemburg; Luxemburg; Lëtzebuerg; Lussimbork), also called Belgian Luxembourg or West Luxembourg, is the southernmost province of Wallonia within Belgium.

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Maggie De Block

Maggie Celine Louise De Block (born 28 April 1962) is a Belgian politician of the Open VLD who has been chairing her party's group in the Chamber of Representatives since 2020.

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Marxism

Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis.

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Maxime Prévot

Maxime Prévot (born April 9, 1978) is a Belgian politician who is currently the president of the party and has served as the mayor of Namur since 2012.

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Melissa Depraetere

Melissa Depraetere (born 12 May 1992 in Kortrijk) is a Belgian politician and interim leader of Vooruit.

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Member of the European Parliament

A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament.

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Meyrem Almaci

Meyrem Almaci (Sint-Niklaas, 25 February 1976) is a Belgian politician from Flanders and member of the ecological party Groen.

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Monarchy of Belgium

Belgium is a constitutional, hereditary and popular monarchy. Chamber of Representatives (Belgium) and monarchy of Belgium are 1831 establishments in Belgium.

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Motion of no confidence

A motion or vote of no confidence (or the inverse, a motion of confidence and corresponding vote of confidence) is a motion and corresponding vote thereon in a deliberative assembly (usually a legislative body) as to whether an officer (typically an executive) is deemed fit to continue to occupy their office.

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Municipalities with language facilities

In Belgium, there are 27 municipalities with language facilities (faciliteitengemeenten; communes à facilités; Fazilitäten-Gemeinden), which must offer linguistic services to residents in Dutch, French, or German in addition to their single official languages.

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Namur Province

Namur (Namen; Nameur) is a province of Wallonia, one of the three regions of Belgium.

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Naturalization

Naturalization (or naturalisation) is the legal act or process by which a non-national of a country acquires the nationality of that country after birth.

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New Flemish Alliance

The New Flemish Alliance (Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie,, N-VA) is a Flemish nationalist, conservative and Eurosceptic political party in Belgium.

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Ombudsman

An ombudsman (also), ombud, ombuds, bud, ombudswoman, ombudsperson, or public advocate is a government employee who investigates and tries to resolve complaints, usually through recommendations (binding or not) or mediation.

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Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats

The Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats (Open Vld) is a Flemish liberal political party in Belgium.

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Open list

Open list describes any variant of party-list proportional representation where voters have at least some influence on the order in which a party's candidates are elected.

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Order of precedence

An order of precedence is a sequential hierarchy of nominal importance and can be applied to individuals, groups, or organizations.

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Palace of the Nation

The Palace of the Nation (Palais de la Nation; Paleis der Natie; Palast der Nation) is a neoclassical palace in Brussels, Belgium, housing the Belgian Federal Parliament.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories.

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Parliamentary group

A parliamentary group, parliamentary caucus or political group is a group consisting of members of different political parties or independent politicians with similar ideologies.

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Parliamentary leader

A parliamentary leader is a political title or a descriptive term used in various countries to designate the person leading a parliamentary group or caucus in a legislative body, whether it be a national or sub-national legislature.

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Patrick Dewael

Patrick Yvonne Hugo Dewael, (born 13 October 1955) is a liberal Belgian politician.

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Paul Magnette

Paul Magnette (born 28 June 1971) is a Belgian politician.

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Peter De Roover

Peter De Roover (born 20 May 1962) is a Belgian politician and a member of the Flemish nationalist New Flemish Alliance party.

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Plenary session

A plenary session or plenum is a session of a conference or deliberative assembly in which all parties or members are present.

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Politics of Belgium

The politics of Belgium take place in the framework of a federal, representative democratic, constitutional monarchy.

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Prime Minister of Belgium

The prime minister of Belgium (Eerste minister van België; Premier ministre de Belgique; Premierminister von Belgien) or the premier of Belgium is the head of the federal government of Belgium, and the most powerful person in Belgian politics. Chamber of Representatives (Belgium) and prime Minister of Belgium are 1831 establishments in Belgium.

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Proportional representation

Proportional representation (PR) refers to any type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body.

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Provinces of Belgium

The Kingdom of Belgium is divided into three regions.

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Question time

A question time in a parliament occurs when members of the parliament ask questions of government ministers (including the prime minister), which they are obliged to answer.

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Quorum

A quorum is the minimum number of members of a group necessary to constitute the group at a meeting.

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Rajae Maouane

Rajae Maouane (born 3 July 1989) is a Belgian politician who served co-president of Ecolo.

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Raoul Hedebouw

Raoul Hedebouw (born 12 July 1977) is a Belgian politician who has been serving as the president of the Workers' Party of Belgium (PVDA-PTB) since 2021.

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Reformist Movement

The Reformist Movement (Mouvement Réformateur,, MR) is a liberal French-speaking political party in Belgium.

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Regionalism (politics)

Regionalism is a political ideology that seeks to increase the political power, influence and self-determination of the people of one or more subnational regions.

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Right-wing politics

Right-wing politics is the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position based on natural law, economics, authority, property, religion, biology, or tradition.

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Right-wing populism

Right-wing populism, also called right populism, is a political ideology that combines right-wing politics with populist rhetoric and themes.

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Sammy Mahdi

Sammy Mahdi (born 21 September 1988) is a Belgian Christian-Democrat politician, a member and the president of CD&V, who in March 2020 became a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives.

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Senate (Belgium)

The Senate (Senaat,; Sénat,; Senat) is one of the two chambers of the bicameral Federal Parliament of Belgium, the other being the Chamber of Representatives. Chamber of Representatives (Belgium) and Senate (Belgium) are 1831 establishments in Belgium.

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Separation of powers

The separation of powers principle functionally differentiates several types of state power (usually law-making, adjudication, and execution) and requires these operations of government to be conceptually and institutionally distinguishable and articulated, thereby maintaining the integrity of each.

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Sixth Belgian state reform

The sixth state reform in the federal kingdom of Belgium is the result after the 2010–2011 Belgian government formation, with 541 days of negotiations, the longest ever in Belgium and possibly the world.

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Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and supports a gradualist, reformist and democratic approach towards achieving socialism.

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The logotype "Quaerite Libertatem et Altruismum" (Latin: as a transnational and neutral language) means "Seek Freedom and Altruism!".

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The Socialist Party (Parti socialiste,, PS) is a social democratic French-speaking political party in Belgium.

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Supermajority

A supermajority (also called supra-majority, supramajority, qualified majority, or special majority) is a requirement for a proposal to gain a specified level of support which is greater than the threshold of more than one-half used for a simple majority.

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Tinne Van der Straeten

Tinne Van der Straeten (born 1 April 1978) is a Belgian politician who has been serving as Minister of Energy in the De Croo Government since October 2020.

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Tom Van Grieken

Tom Jozef Irène Van Grieken (born 7 October 1986) is a Belgian politician and author who has served as leader of Vlaams Belang since October 2014.

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Vlaams Belang

Vlaams Belang (VB) is a Flemish nationalist, Eurosceptic and right-wing populist political party in the Flemish Region and Brussels Capital Region of Belgium.

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Vooruit (political party)

Vooruit (Dutch for Onward) is a Flemish social democratic political party in Belgium.

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Voting methods in deliberative assemblies

Deliberative assemblies – bodies that use parliamentary procedure to arrive at decisions – use several methods of voting on motions (formal proposal by members of a deliberative assembly that the assembly take certain action).

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Walloon Brabant

Walloon Brabant (Brabant wallon; Waals-Brabant; Roman Payis) is a province located in Belgium's French-speaking region of Wallonia.

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West Flanders

West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen; West Vloandern; (Province de) Flandre-Occidentale; Westflandern) is the westernmost province of the Flemish Region, in Belgium.

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Workers' Party of Belgium

The Workers' Party of Belgium (Parti du travail de Belgique, PTB; Partij van de Arbeid van België, PVDA) is a Marxist and socialist political party in Belgium.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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2007 Belgian federal election

Federal elections were held in Belgium on 10 June 2007.

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2024 Belgian federal election

Federal elections were held in Belgium on 9 June 2024.

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See also

1831 establishments in Belgium

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamber_of_Representatives_(Belgium)

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