Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democrats

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Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democrats
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Party leader Egbert Lachaert
vice-chairman Mercedes Van Volcem
Herman De Croo
founding 1846 as Parti libéral
1961 as PLP-PVV
1971 as PVV
1992 as VLD
2007 as Open VLD
Headquarters Open VLD
Melsensstraat 34
1000 Bruxelles
Alignment liberalism
Colours) blue
Belgian Chamber of Deputies
12/150
Belgian Senate
5/60
Flemish Parliament
16/124
Brussels Parliament
3/89
Number of members 63,239 (2014)
International connections Liberal International
MEPs
2/21
European party ALDE
EP Group RE
Website www.openvld.be

The Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democrats ( Open VLD ; German  Flemish Liberals and Democrats ) is a Belgian liberal party . It was founded in 1992 when most of the Belgian parties split into two for the Flemish and one for the French speakers. The most prominent party member is the former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt . The former chairman Karel de Gucht was EU Commissioner from 2009 to 2014.

Until 1992 the party was called Partij voor Vrijheid en Vooruitgang (Party for Freedom and Progress). She kept the open in the party name from the ongoing collaboration with Vivant in 2007. The radical democratic Vivant, however, remains as a “movement and party”.

The Open VLD ruled from 1999 to 2003 with the French-speaking liberals from the Mouvement Réformateur and the Socialists and Greens of both large language groups. From 2003 to 2008 she led a social-liberal coalition. Since May 2008 she is in a coalition u. a. with CD&V , first under Yves Leterme , then from December 30, 2008 to November 24, 2009 under Herman Van Rompuy and since then again under Yves Leterme. On April 22, 2010, the Open VLD announced its exit from the Leterme government after negotiations on the reorganization of the Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde constituency had failed. This decision led to the resignation of the government and to the call for federal parliamentary elections in June 2010. The Leterme government with its Open VLD ministers was to remain in office for another year and a half, while the lengthy negotiations for a new coalition failed. The Open VLD was not involved in these negotiations from the start, but only at a later stage. Since December 2011 she has been a member of another federal government, the Di Rupo government . In the Flemish region, however, the Open VLD has been in opposition since 2009.

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  1. ↑ OpenVLD: Egbert Lachaert elected as the new party leader. Belgian Broadcasting, May 22, 2020, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ http://www.demorgen.be/binnenland/open-vld-telt-meeste-leden-a2106576/
  3. ↑ Der Standard : Flemish Liberals Leave Coalition , April 22, 2010.