Minister-President of Flanders

Minister-President of Flanders
Coat of Arms
The Flemish Lion The official flag of Flanders
Incumbent Jan Jambon since 2 October 2019
Executive branch of the Flemish Government
Member of	Flemish Government
Residence	Errera House Koningsstraat 14 Brussels, Belgium
Seat	Martyrs' Square 19 Brussels, Belgium
Appointer	King of the Belgians
Term length	Five years
Constituting instrument	Constitution of Belgium
Precursor	President of the Flemish Executive
Inaugural holder	Gaston Geens
Formation	22 December 1981
Deputy	Hilde Crevits Bart Somers Ben Weyts
Salary	€253,000 annually[1]
Website	http://www.flanders.be/

The Minister-President of Flanders (Dutch: Minister-president van Vlaanderen) is the head of the Flemish Government, which is the executive branch of the Flemish Region and Flemish Community (see the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium).

The incumbent Minister-President is Jan Jambon, who took over from Liesbeth Homans, the interim minister-president following the 2019 Belgian regional elections. A new agreement between the three same parties, N-VA, CD&V and Open Vld, to form a government was obtained on 30 September 2019, and the ministers were sworn in on 2 October 2019. The government consists of 9 ministers, 4 for N-VA, 3 for CD&V and 2 for Open Vld.

The Errera House, the official residence of the Flemish minister-president and ministers

The cabinet offices are located at the Martyrs' Square in Brussels

Appointment

Following the election of the Flemish Parliament, a Flemish Government is formed with a maximum of eleven ministers. The largest party in the government coalition may choose the minister-president. Following the oath of office of all ministers before the Flemish Parliament, the minister-president alone takes the oath of office before the King as well.

Regional elections are held every 5 years. The Flemish Parliament was elected directly for the first time in 1995. Prior to 1995, the members of the Flemish Parliament were the members of the Dutch language group of the Federal Parliament of Belgium.

List of officeholders

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Elected	Term of office			Political Party	Government
				Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Gaston Geens (1931–2002)	1981	22 December 1981	21 January 1992	10 years 30 days	CVP	Geens I	CVP, PVV, SP, VU
			1985					Geens II	CVP, PVV
			1987					Geens III	CVP, PVV
								Geens IV	CVP, SP, PVV, VU
2		Luc Van den Brande (born 1945)	1991	21 January 1992	13 July 1999	7 years, 174 days	CVP	Van den Brande I	CVP, SP
								Van den Brande II	CVP, SP, VU
								Van den Brande III	CVP, SP, VU
			1995					Van den Brande IV	CVP, SP
3		Patrick Dewael (born 1955)	1999	13 July 1999	5 June 2003	3 years, 327 days	VLD	Dewael	VLD, SP, Agalev, VU-ID
4		Bart Somers (born 1964)	—	11 June 2003	20 July 2004	1 year, 39 days	VLD	Somers	VLD, sp.a, Groen!, Spirit
5		Yves Leterme (born 1960)	2004	20 July 2004	28 June 2007	2 years, 342 days	CD&V	Leterme	CD&V, sp.a-Spirit, VLD-Vivant, N-VA
6		Kris Peeters (born 1962)	—	28 June 2007	25 July 2014	7 years, 27 days	CD&V	Peeters I	CD&V, sp.a-Spirit, VLD, N-VA
			2009					Peeters II	CD&V, sp.a, N-VA
7		Geert Bourgeois (born 1951)	2014	25 July 2014	1 July 2019	4 years, 350 days	N-VA	Bourgeois	N-VA, CD&V, Open Vld
8		Liesbeth Homans (born 1973)	—	2 July 2019	1 October 2019	91 days	N-VA	Homans	N-VA, CD&V, Open Vld
9		Jan Jambon (born 1960)	2019	2 October 2019	Incumbent	1 year, 136 days	N-VA	Jambon	N-VA, CD&V, Open Vld

Timeline

Living former Minister-Presidents

Minister-Presidents often go on to join the Federal Government: e.g. Patrick Dewael and Kris Peeters became federal Minister, and Yves Leterme even Prime Minister.

See also

• Prime Minister of Belgium
• Minister-President of the Brussels Capital-Region
• Minister-President of the French Community
• Minister-President of the German-speaking Community
• Minister-President of the Walloon Region
• Politics of Flanders
• Flemish Parliament
• Flemish Government

References