Démocrate Fédéraliste Indépendant

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Démocrate Fédéraliste Indépendant
DEFI-Logo-Bandeau.png
Party leader François De Smet
founding May 11, 1964
Headquarters 127, Chaussée de Charleroi
1060 Brussels
Alignment Representation of the interests of the francophone population
Regionalism
Liberalism
Colours) amaranth
Belgian Chamber of Deputies
2/150
Belgian Senate
0/60
Walloon Parliament
0/75
Brussels Parliament
10/89
Parliament of the French Community
3/94
MEPs
0/21
Website www.fdf.be

The party Démocrate Fédéraliste Indépendant (short: DéFI , until 2015 Fédéralistes démocrates francophones , short FDF ) is a Belgian party founded on May 11, 1964 , which originally existed under the name Front démocratique des Bruxellois francophones (FDBF). Its right to exist is primarily to safeguard the interests of the francophone population in the Brussels-Capital Region and the Province of Flemish Brabant , even if the party tried to set foot in the provinces of Walloon Brabant and Hainaut in the 1991 elections grasp.

The party is sometimes referred to in the Flemish media as "anti-Flemish and racist". Party supporters deny this.

For a long time the FDF worked with the Rassemblement Wallon , a Walloon party. The two parties formed a joint parliamentary working group and joint electoral lists for the parliamentary elections on March 31, 1968. A key figure in the FDF was Roger Nols , who was mayor of the Belgian city of Schaarbeek from 1970 to 1989 and was very controversial as a tough opponent of immigration.

From 1977 to 1980 the FDF was represented twice in the Belgian government.

As a result of the introduction of new laws on the public financing of parties, which was now dependent on the presence in the Senate, but in which the FDF was only represented with one seat, the party formed an alliance with the Parti réformateur libéral from 1992 . This was expressed above all in common lists for elections at national and local level. As a result of this merger, the alliance achieved around 10% in the elections to the Chamber of Deputies in 1995 and 1999, making the party a serious size at national level.

On March 24, 2002 the FDF founded the Mouvement Réformateur (MR) together with the Parti réformateur libéral (PRL) , the PFF ( Party for Freedom and Progress ) and the MCC (Mouvement des Citoyens pour le Changement ). In September 2011, however, the FDF left this alliance.

On March 19, 2006, incumbent President Olivier Maingain was re-elected after his opponent Didier Gosuin withdrew his candidacy. In 2015 the party was renamed Démocrate Fédéraliste Indépendant . Maingain's successor at the helm of DéFI has been François De Smet since the beginning of December 2019 .

Important personalities

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathieu Colleyn: C'est fait, les FDF quittent le MR. September 26, 2011, accessed December 10, 2011 (in French).
  2. ↑ François De Smet new defi president. BRF , December 2, 2019, accessed on the same day.