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
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

No.		Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office		Party	Election	Government
rowspan=4 style="background:Template:Christian Democratic and Flemish/meta/color"|	1		Gaston Geens (1931–2002)	22 December 1981	21 January 1992	CVP	1981	Geens I	CVP, PVV, SP, VU
1985							Geens II	CVP, PVV
1987							Geens III	CVP, PVV
							Geens IV	CVP, SP, PVV, VU
rowspan=4 style="background:Template:Christian Democratic and Flemish/meta/color"|	2		Luc Van den Brande (born 1945)	21 January 1992	13 July 1999	CVP	1991	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
style="background:Template:Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats/meta/color"|	3		Patrick Dewael (born 1955)	13 July 1999	5 June 2003	VLD	1999	Dewael	VLD, SP, Agalev, VU-ID
style="background:Template:Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats/meta/color"|	4		Bart Somers (born 1964)	11 June 2003	20 July 2004	VLD	—	Somers	VLD, sp.a, Groen!, Spirit
style="background:Template:Christian Democratic and Flemish/meta/color"|	5		Yves Leterme (born 1960)	20 July 2004	28 June 2007	CD&V	2004	Leterme	CD&V, sp.a-Spirit, VLD-Vivant, N-VA
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Christian Democratic and Flemish/meta/color"|	6		Kris Peeters (born 1962)	28 June 2007	25 July 2014	CD&V	—	Peeters I	CD&V, sp.a-Spirit, VLD, N-VA
2009							Peeters II	CD&V, sp.a, N-VA
style="background:Template:New Flemish Alliance/meta/color"|	7		Geert Bourgeois (born 1951)	25 July 2014	1 July 2019	N-VA	2014	Bourgeois	N-VA, CD&V, Open Vld
style="background:Template:New Flemish Alliance/meta/color"|	8		Liesbeth Homans (born 1973)	2 July 2019	1 October 2019	N-VA	—	Homans	N-VA, CD&V, Open Vld
style="background:Template:New Flemish Alliance/meta/color"|	9		Jan Jambon (born 1960)	2 October 2019	Incumbent	N-VA	2019	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.

Name	Term	Date of birth	Age
Luc Van den Brande	1992-1999	13 October 1945	78 years, 7 months
Patrick Dewael	1999-2003	13 October 1955	68 years, 7 months
Bart Somers	2003-2004	12 May 1964	60 years
Yves Leterme	2004-2007	6 October 1960	63 years, 7 months
Kris Peeters	2007-2014	18 May 1962	62 years
Geert Bourgeois	2014-2019	6 July 1951	72 years, 10 months
Liesbeth Homans	2019	17 February 1973	51 years, 3 months

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