Parliament of the French Community

Parliament of the French Community
Parlement de la Communauté Française de Belgique

logo	Parliament building
Basic data
Seat:	Rue Royale 72 Brussels
Legislative period :	5 years
MPs:	94
Current legislative period
Last choice:	May 26, 2019
Chair:	Rudy Demotte (PS)
Distribution of seats:	Government (67) PS 28 MR 23 Ecolo 16 Opposition (27) PTB 13 CDH 11 DéFI 3
Website
www.pfwb.be

The Parliament of the French Community of Belgium ( French Parlement de la Communauté française de Belgique ) is the representative body of the French Community of the Kingdom of Belgium with its seat in Brussels .

composition

The Parliament of the French Community of Belgium with 94 members is composed of the French-speaking members of the Parliament of the Walloon Region with 75 members and an additional group of members of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region (19 of 72 members) proportional to the population . The German-speaking members of the Parliament of the Walloon Region do not belong to the Parliament of the French Community of Belgium, as the German-speaking community has its own parliament .

Composition since 2019

Political party		Seats
		Wallonia	Brussels	total
•	Parti Socialiste (PS)	23	05	28
•	Mouvement Réformateur (MR)	20th	03	23
•	Ecolo	12	04th	16
	Parti du Travail de Belgique (PTB)	10	03	13
	Center Démocrate Humaniste (CDH)	10	01	11
	Démocrate Fédéraliste Indépendant (DéFI)	00	03	03
total		75	19th	94
Government parties are marked with a dot. (•)

President of the Parliament of the French Community

The following is the list of Presidents of Parliament since the Council of Culture was established in 1971:

Surname		Beginning of the term of office	Term expires	Political party
1	Georges Dejardin	7th December 1971	15th October 1973	PS
2	Émile-Edgard Jeunehomme	16th October 1973	20th October 1975	PLD
3	Lucien Outers	October 21, 1975	October 18, 1976	FDF-RW
4th	Émile-Edgard Jeunehomme	19th October 1976	June 13, 1977	PLD
5	Paul de Strexhe	June 14, 1977	April 9, 1979	PSC
6th	Léon Hurez	April 10, 1979	3rd November 1980	PS
7th	Irène Pétry	November 4th 1980	October 18, 1982	PS
8th	Michel Toussaint	October 19, 1982	October 15, 1984	PRL
9	Charles Poswick	October 16, 1984	2nd December 1985	PRL
10	Jean-Pierre Grafé	3rd December 1985	February 1, 1988	PSC
11	Antoinette Spaak	February 2nd, 1988	January 6, 1992	FDF
12	Anne-Marie Corbisier-Hagon	January 7, 1992	July 5, 1999	PSC
13	Willy Taminiaux	July 13, 1999	April 3, 2000	PS
14th	Richard Miller	April 4, 2000	October 16, 2000	PRL
15th	Jean-Marie Séverin	October 17, 2000	October 15, 2001	PRL
16	Françoise Schepmans	October 16, 2001	July 5, 2004	MR
17th	Freddy Deghilage	July 6, 2004	July 18, 2004	PS
18th	Isabelle Simonis	July 19, 2004	October 27, 2004	PS
19th	Jean-François Istasse	October 28, 2004	June 29, 2009	PS
20th	Véronique Salvi	June 30, 2009	July 15, 2009	CDH
21st	Jean-Charles Luperto	July 16, 2009	November 10, 2014	PS
22nd	Philippe Courard	19th November 2014	17th September 2019	PS
23	Rudy Demotte	17th September 2019		PS

See also

• Political system of Belgium

Web links

Commons : Parliament of the French Community  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website Parliament (multilingual)