Council of Ministers (Belgium)
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The Council of Ministers (French: Conseil des ministres; Dutch: Ministerraad) is the supreme executive organ of the Federal Government of the Kingdom of Belgium. It is a cabinet composed of the Prime Minister, who leads it, and up to fourteen senior ministers.[1] Federal secretaries of state (junior ministers) are members of the government, but not part of the Council.[2] The King of the Belgians historically presided over the Council, but this has not happened since 1957.[3] The Council of Ministers formally became a permanent policy structure with the constitutional revision of 1970.[4]
List Council of Belgium
The De Croo Government is the incumbent Federal Government of Belgium, to be led by Prime Minister Alexander De Croo from 1 October 2020.[5]
| Portfolio | Minister | Took office | Left office | Party | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prime Minister | |||||||||
| Prime Minister (from 22 April 2022 until 14 July 2022 also acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Affairs (replacing Sophie Wilmès)) | 1 October 2020 | Incumbent | Open Vld | ||||||
| Deputy Prime Ministers | |||||||||
| Minister of Economy and Employment | 1 October 2020 | Incumbent | PS | ||||||
| Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Affairs, Foreign Trade and Federal Cultural Institutions (absent from 22 April 2022 until 14 July 2022, replaced by colleagues De Croo, Clarinval and Michel) | 1 October 2020 | 14 July 2022 | MR | ||||||
| Minister of the Small Businesses, Self-Employed, SMEs and Agriculture, Institutional Reforms and Democratic Renewal (from 22 April 2022 until 14 July 2022 also acting Minister of Foreign Trade and Deputy Prime Minister for the MR (replacing Sophie Wilmès)) | 22 April 2022 | Incumbent | MR | ||||||
| Minister of Mobility | 1 October 2020 | Incumbent | Ecolo | ||||||
| Minister of Finance, in charge of the Coordination of the Fight against Fraud | 1 October 2020 | Incumbent | CD&V | ||||||
| Minister of Social Affairs and Public Health | 1 October 2020 | Incumbent | Vooruit | ||||||
| Minister of Civil Service, Public Enterprises, Telecommunication and Postal Services | 1 October 2020 | Incumbent | Groen | ||||||
| Minister of Justice and the North Sea | 1 October 2020 | Incumbent | Open Vld | ||||||
| Ministers | |||||||||
| Minister of the Small Businesses, Self-Employed, SMEs and Agriculture, Institutional Reforms and Democratic Renewal | 1 October 2020 | 21 April 2022 | MR | ||||||
| Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Affairs, Foreign Trade and Federal Cultural Institutions | 15 July 2022 | Incumbent | MR | ||||||
| Minister of Pensions and Social Integration, in charge of Persons with Disabilities, Combating Poverty and Beliris | 1 October 2020 | Incumbent | PS | ||||||
| Minister of Defence | 1 October 2020 | Incumbent | PS | ||||||
| Minister of Climate, Environment, Sustainable Development and Green Deal | 1 October 2020 | Incumbent | Ecolo | ||||||
| Minister of the Interior, Institutional Reforms and Democratic Renewal | 1 October 2020 | Incumbent | CD&V | ||||||
| Minister of Development Cooperation and Urban Policy | 1 October 2020 | Incumbent | Vooruit | ||||||
| Minister of Energy | 1 October 2020 | Incumbent | Groen | ||||||
| Secretaries of State | |||||||||
| Secretary of State for Recovery and Strategic Investments, in charge of Science Policy Deputy to the Minister of the Economy and Employment | 1 October 2020 | Incumbent | PS | ||||||
| Secretary of State for Digitization, in charge of Administrative Simplification, Privacy and Buildings Administration (from 22 April 2022 until 14 July 2022 also acting Secretary of State for Federal Cultural Institutions (replacing Sophie Wilmès)) Deputy to the Prime Minister | 1 October 2020 | Incumbent | MR | ||||||
| Secretary of State for Gender Equality, Equal Opportunities and Diversity Deputy to the Minister of Mobility | 1 October 2020 | Incumbent | Ecolo | ||||||
| Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration, in charge of the National Lottery Deputy to the Minister of the Interior, Institutional Reforms and Democratic Renewal | 1 October 2020 | 27 June 2022 | CD&V | ||||||
| Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration, in charge of the National Lottery Deputy to the Minister of the Interior, Institutional Reforms and Democratic Renewal | 28 June 2022 | Incumbent | CD&V | ||||||
| Secretary of State for Budget and Consumer Protection Deputy to the Minister of Justice and the North Sea | 1 October 2020 | Incumbent | Open Vld | ||||||
Changes in composition
- On 21 April 2022, Sophie Wilmès took a temporary leave of absence for personal reasons. Officially, she remains in office as both Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, however in reality all her duties have been taken over by other members of the cabinet from 22 April 2022. Prime minister Alexander De Croo is the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of European Affairs, David Clarinval took over her duties as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Trade, and finally Mathieu Michel took over the portfolio of Federal Cultural Institutions.[6] On July 14, 2022, Wilmès resigned definitively as a member of the De Croo government, with all her portfolios allocated to newcomer Hadja Lahbib, although David Clarinval kept the position of Deputy Prime Minister for the MR.[7]
- On 27 June 2022, Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration Sammy Mahdi was replaced by Nicole de Moor, as Mahdi had been elected the new party president of CD&V.[8]
References
- ^ Article 99 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Belgium
- ^ Article 104 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Belgium
- ^ "Ministerraad" (in Dutch). FOD Kanselarij van de Eerste Minister. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
- ^ Guy Coppieters (2008). "Voorbereidend studiedossier van de archiefselectielijst" (PDF) (in Dutch). Archief van de FOD Kanselarij van de Eerste Minister. p. 143. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
- ^ "7 partijen hebben een inhoudelijk akkoord om samen te regeren: dit weten we daar al over". VRT (in Dutch). 2020-09-30. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
- ^ vrtnws.be (21 April 2022). "Sophie Wilmès (MR) stopt voorlopig als minister door ziekte man, premier De Croo neemt Buitenlandse Zaken over" [Sophie Wilmès (MR) temporarily quits as Minister due to husband's illness, Prime Minister De Croo takes over Foreign Affairs].
- ^ Sophie Wilmès (MR) stopt definitief als minister van Buitenlandse Zaken door ziekte echtgenoot
- ^ vrtnws.be (27 June 2022). "CD&V verrast met nieuwe staatssecretaris voor Asiel en Migratie: wie is Nicole de Moor?" [CD&V surprises with choice for new Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration: who is Nicole de Moor?].
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