List of members of the Belgian Senate (2007-2010)
This list includes the members of the Belgian Senate in the 2007-2010 parliamentary term. The Senate has 74 members.
Current allocation of seats
Current distribution of seats by party (after the 2007 elections):
Political party | Seats | |
---|---|---|
• | Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V) / New Flemish Alliance (NVA) | 14th |
• | Reform Movement (MR) | 11 |
• | Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats (Open VLD) | 9 |
• | Socialist Party (PS) | 8th |
Flemish Issues (VB) | 8th | |
Socialist Party - Anders (SP.A) - Flemish Progressives (VP) | 7th | |
Ecolo | 5 | |
• | Humanist Democratic Center (CDH) | 5 |
Green! | 2 | |
List Dedecker (LDD) | 1 | |
National Front (FN) | 1 | |
total | 71 |
Government parties are marked with a dot (•)
MPs
Surname | fraction | Language group | Legal ground | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
Bert Anciaux | SP.a / SPIRIT | NL | Country choice | (Spirit) retired, successor: Myriam Vanlerberghe (SP.a) (*) |
Filip Antheunis | Open VLD | NL | Co-opted | (Open VLD) |
Wouter Beke | CD & V / N-VA | NL | Country choice | (CD&V) |
Astrid of Belgium | Non-attached | Without | Qua office | |
Laurent of Belgium | Non-attached | Without | Qua office | |
Philip of Belgium | Non-attached | Without | Qua office | |
Sfia Bouarfa | PS | FR | Regional parliaments | |
Luc Van den Brande | CD & V / N-VA | NL | Regional parliaments | |
Frieda Brepoels | CD & V / N-VA | NL | Country choice | (N-VA) retired, successor: Sabine de Bethune (CD&V) (*) |
Jacques Brotchi | MR | FR | Co-opted | (MR) |
Philippe Busquin | PS | FR | Country choice | retired, successor: Olga Zrihen |
Jurgen Ceder | VB | NL | Country choice | (VB) |
Marcel Cheron | Écolo / Groen! | FR | Regional parliaments | (Écolo) |
Dirk Claes | CD & V / N-VA | NL | Co-opted | (CD&V) |
Berni Collas | PFF | DE | Regional parliaments | (Representative of the DG) |
Christophe Collignon | PS | FR | Regional parliaments | |
Alain Courtois | MR | FR | Country choice | (MCC) |
Hugo Coveliers | VB | NL | Country choice | (VLOTT) |
Georges Dallemagne | cdH | FR | Co-opted | |
José Daras | Écolo / Groen! | FR | Country choice | (Écolo) (*) |
Armand De Decker | MR | FR | Country choice | (PRL) |
Jean-Jacques De Gucht | Open VLD | NL | Country choice | (Open VLD) |
Christine Defraigne | MR | FR | Regional parliaments | (MR) (*) |
Michel Delacroix | FN | FR | Country choice | (*) |
Francis Delpérée | cdH | FR | Country choice | (*) |
Anne Delvaux | cdH | FR | Country choice | retired, successor: Vanessa Matz |
Alain Destexhe | MR | FR | Regional parliaments | (PRL) |
Alain Destexhe | MR | FR | Country choice | (PRL) retired, successor: Marie-Hélène Crombé-Berton (PRL) |
Filip Dewinter | VB | NL | Country choice | (VB) retired, successor: Nele Jansegers |
Vera Dua | Écolo / Groen! | NL | Regional parliaments | (Great!) |
Vera Dua | Écolo / Groen! | NL | Country choice | retired, successor: Freya Piryns (Groen!) |
Josy Dubié | Écolo / Groen! | FR | Regional parliaments | (Écolo) |
Isabelle Durant | Écolo / Groen! | FR | Country choice | (Écolo) |
Marc Elsen | cdH | FR | Regional parliaments | |
Lieve Van Ermen | LDD | NL | Country choice | |
Richard Fournaux | MR | FR | Country choice | (MCC) |
Freddy Van Gaever | VB | NL | Co-opted | (VB) |
Joris Van Hauthem | VB | NL | Regional parliaments | (VB) (*) |
Margriet Hermans | Open VLD | NL | Regional parliaments | (Open VLD) |
Louis Ide | CD & V / N-VA | NL | Country choice | (N-VA) |
Joëlle Kapompolé | PS | FR | Regional parliaments | |
Geert Lambert | SP.a / SPIRIT | NL | Country choice | (Spirit) |
Nahima Lanjri | CD & V / N-VA | NL | Country choice | (CD&V) |
Yves Leterme | CD & V / N-VA | NL | Country choice | (CD&V) retired, successor: Els Van Hoof (CD&V) |
Nele Lijnen | Open VLD | NL | Country choice | (Open VLD) |
Anne-Marie Lizin | PS | FR | Country choice | |
Philippe Mahoux | PS | FR | Country choice | (*) |
Bart Martens | SP.a / SPIRIT | NL | Regional parliaments | (Spa) |
Louis Michel | MR | FR | Country choice | (PRL) retired, successor: Philippe Monfils (PRL) |
Philippe Moureaux | PS | FR | Country choice | |
André Van Nieuwkerke | SP.a / SPIRIT | NL | Regional parliaments | (Spa) |
Karim Van Overmeire | VB | NL | Regional parliaments | (VB) |
Tony Van Parys | CD & V / N-VA | NL | Country choice | (CD&V) |
Jean-Paul Procureur | cdH | FR | Regional parliaments | |
François Roelandts du Vivier | MR | FR | Regional parliaments | (MR) |
Carine Russo | Écolo / Groen! | FR | Co-opted | (Écolo) |
Els Schelfhout | CD & V / N-VA | NL | Co-opted | (CD&V) |
Etienne Schouppe | CD & V / N-VA | NL | Country choice | (CD&V) retired, successor: Pol Van Den Driessche (CD&V) |
Rent Smet | CD & V / N-VA | NL | Regional parliaments | (CD&V) |
Helga Stevens | CD & V / N-VA | NL | Regional parliaments | (N-VA) |
Guy Swennen | SP.a / SPIRIT | NL | Co-opted | (Spa) |
Martine Taelman | Open VLD | NL | Co-opted | (Open VLD) |
Marleen Temmerman | SP.a / SPIRIT | NL | Country choice | (Spa) |
Dominique Tilmans | MR | FR | Country choice | (PRL) |
Elke Tindemans | CD & V / N-VA | NL | Country choice | (CD&V) |
Johan Vande Lanotte | SP.a / SPIRIT | NL | Country choice | (Spa) |
Hugo Vandenberghe | CD & V / N-VA | NL | Country choice | (CD&V) |
Anke Vandermeersch | VB | NL | Country choice | (VB) |
Frank Vanhecke | VB | NL | Country choice | (VB) retired, successor: Yves Buysse |
Patrik Vankrunkelsven | Open VLD | NL | Country choice | (Open VLD) |
Guy Verhofstadt | Open VLD | NL | Country choice | (Open VLD) retired, successor: Roland Duchatelet (Vivant) |
Marc Verwilghen | Open VLD | NL | Country choice | (Open VLD) |
Christiane Vienne | PS | FR | Co-opted | |
Paul will | Open VLD | NL | Regional parliaments | (Open VLD) (*) |
(*) Group leader
List of abbreviations
- CD&V : Christen-Democratisch & Vlaams
- N-VA : Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie
- Open VLD : Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democrats
- Vivant : Voor Individuele Vrijheid en Arbeid in een Nieuwe Toekomst
- SP.a : Socialist party different
- Spirit : Sociaal Progressief Internationaal Regionalist Integraal-democratisch en Toekomstgericht
- VB : Vlaams Belang
- VLOTT : Vlaams Liberaal Onafhankelijk Tolerant Transparant
- LDD : Lijst Dedecker
- Big ones!
- MR : Mouvement Reformateur
- PRL : Parti Réformateur Libéral
- MCC : Mouvement des Citoyens pour le Changement, today Mouvement Réformateur
- PFF : Party for Freedom and Progress
- FDF : Front Démocratique des Francophones
- PS : Parti Socialiste
- cdH : center démocrate Humaniste
- Écolo : Ecologistes Confédérés pour l'Organisation de Luttes Originales
- FN : Front National
See also
Web links
- Official result .
- Official election information
- Officiële gegen vanwege de senaat mbt deze legislative period