Martens VII government

The Belgian Martens VII government was in office from October 21, 1987 to May 9, 1988. On October 23, 1987 she received the confidence of the Chamber of Deputies and on October 24, 1987 that of the Senate . It consisted of fifteen ministers (including the prime minister) and thirteen state secretaries.

This seventh government, headed by Wilfried Martens (CVP), was composed of Flemish and Francophone Christian Socials ( CVP and PSC ) and Liberals ( PVV and PRL ). The Martens VII government was the successor to the Martens VI government , which was also composed of Christian Socialists and Liberals and which failed after a two-year term due to the problems surrounding the municipality of Voeren and the person of José Happart ( PS ). After just a few days of negotiations, Martens VII was formed as a purely transitional government with the aim of preparing early elections and a constitutional amendment with a view to future state reform.

In its short term, the government experienced only one personnel change. On February 3, 1988, when the government only dealt with current business, Guy Lutgen resigned and moved to the Walloon government.

Even if the Martens VII government was formed as a transitional government, it remained in office as the outgoing government for six months after the new elections on December 13, 1987. Both the Flemish Christian Socials and the French-speaking Liberals suffered losses in these elections. The formation of a new government, in which especially Jean-Luc Dehaene (CVP), the bulk of the work made (at that time was the saying "Sire, give me a hundred days," the Dehaene at the King addressed), was extremely long and tough, since it required a solution to the Voeren problem and the basic principles of a new state reform. Finally, on May 9, 1988, there was the new Martens VIII government , which was composed of the Christian Socialists, the revitalized Socialists ( SP and PS ) and the Flemish Nationalist Volksunie (VU).

composition

minister	Surname	Political party
prime minister	Wilfried Martens	CVP
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Justice and Institutional Reform	Jean Gol	PRL
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for the Budget, Science Policy and Planning	Guy Verhofstadt	PVV
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Economic Affairs	Philippe Maystadt	PSC
Minister for Foreign Affairs	Leo Tindemans	CVP
Minister of Finance	Mark Eyskens	CVP
Minister for Public Works	Louis Olivier	PRL
Minister for Transport and Foreign Trade	Herman De Croo	PVV
Minister of Internal Affairs, Civil Service and Decentralization	Joseph Michel	PSC
Minister for Employment and Labor	Michel Hansenne	PSC
Minister for National Education (N)	Daniel Coens	CVP
Minister for Social Affairs and Institutional Reform	Jean-Luc Dehaene	CVP
Minister of Defense and Minister of the Brussels Region	François-Xavier de Donnea	PRL
Minister for the Middle Class	Jacky Buchmann	PVV
Minister for National Education (F)	Antoine Duquesne	PRL
State Secretaries	Surname	Political party
State Secretary for Development Cooperation	André Kempinaire	PVV
State Secretary for Foreign Trade	Etienne Knoops	PRL
State Secretary for Pensions	Pierre Mainil	PSC
State Secretary for Post, Telegraph and Telephone	Paula D'Hondt	CVP
State Secretary for European Affairs and Agriculture	Paul De Keersmaeker	CVP
State Secretary for Energy	Firmin Aerts	CVP
State Secretary for Justice and SMEs	Georges Mundeleer	PRL
State Secretary for the Brussels Region	Jan Bascour	PVV
State Secretary for the Modernization and Informatization of the Civil Service Office dissolved on February 3, 1988 and responsibilities taken over from Prime Minister Martens	- until February 3, 1988: Guy Lutgen	- PSC
State Secretary for the Public Service and Science Policy	Louis Bril	PVV
State Secretary for the Brussels Region	Jean-Louis Thys	PSC
State Secretary for Environment and Social Emancipation	Rent Smet	CVP
State Secretary for Public Health and Disability Policy	Wivina Demeester	CVP

Web links

Premier.be - Official website of the Belgian Prime Minister (multilingual)