Election of the parliament of the German-speaking community in 2014
The the election Parliament of the German Community in 2014 was held on May 25, 2014. The members of the legislature of the German-speaking Community of Belgium were elected for the 2014–2019 legislative period. The Christian Social Party (CSP), the Socialist Party (SP), the Party for Freedom and Progress (PFF), ProDG , Ecolo , Vivant and, for the first time, the Parti Libertarians stood for election .
On the same day, the election to the Belgian Chamber of Deputies , the European elections in Belgium and the elections to the Flemish Parliament , the Walloon Parliament and the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region took place.
Election process
On election day, eligible voters could cast their votes between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. in the election offices of the nine municipalities. The electoral process and the counting of votes were fraught with considerable organizational and technical problems. Many election workers did not show up, so that the presidents of the individual election offices were forced to spontaneously engage citizens as election workers. After the actual election there were problems with reading the floppy disks used from the individual polling stations because a server at the Ministry of the Interior in Brussels had collapsed. There were also problems with 20 voting cards (i.e. 20 votes) that could not be read correctly and were ultimately declared invalid. The fact that 14 votes might have been enough to change the distribution of seats in parliament in favor of Vivant (then plus 1 seat) and to the detriment of the CSP (then minus 1 seat) was particularly explosive. Due to the problems, the results of the election were only known on Monday evening, but these, too, had not yet been officially confirmed.
Result
| Election to the parliament of the German-speaking community in 2014 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Political party | Alignment | be right | Seats | |||||
| number | % | +/- | number | +/- | % | |||
| Christian Social Party (CSP) | Christian Democracy | 9,358 | 24.87 | 2.15 | 7th | 28.00 | ||
| ProDG | regionalism | 8,355 | 22.20 | 4.71 | 6th | 2 | 24.00 | |
| Socialist Party (SP) | Social democracy | 6,050 | 16.08 | 3.22 | 4th | 1 | 16.00 | |
| Party for Freedom and Progress (PFF) | liberalism | 5,847 | 15.54 | 1.98 | 4th | 16.00 | ||
| Vivant | Social liberalism | 3,997 | 10.62 | 3.46 | 2 | 8.00 | ||
| Ecolo | Green politics | 3,591 | 9.54 | 1.96 | 2 | 1 | 8.00 | |
| Parti Libertarians (P-Lib) | Libertarianism | 435 | 1.16 | New | 0 | New | 0.00 | |
| Valid votes | 37,633 | 88.92 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 4,691 | 11.08 | ||||||
| Votes cast | 42,324 | 100.00 | - | 25th | 100.00 | |||
| Number of eligible voters | 49,000 | |||||||
coalition
A few days after the election, the SP, PFF and ProDG came together for the third time in a row to form a three-party coalition, which sends the following ministers to the government of the German-speaking community :
- Oliver Paasch (ProDG): Prime Minister, responsible for the coordination of political work, finances and budget, administration and personnel, domestic and international relations, European programs, institutional reforms, community infrastructures (except school infrastructures and community centers), law enforcement
- Isabelle Weykmans (PFF): Vice-Prime Minister, responsible for employment, business development agency, culture, monument protection, media, sport, youth, tourism, community centers, telecommunications, spatial planning, road construction
- Harald Mollers (ProDG): Minister responsible for education, school infrastructures, training and further education in the field of medium-sized companies and agriculture, adult education, lifelong learning, scientific research
- Antonios Antoniadis (SP): Minister responsible for social affairs, family, senior citizens, health care, disability policy, youth welfare, development cooperation, consumer protection, protection of minors, child allowances, housing
In addition, it was agreed that the previous Prime Minister Karl-Heinz Lambertz (SP) would be the new President of Parliament, while his predecessor Alexander Miesen (PFF) took over the office of Senator. In 2016 they both swap their posts.
Web links
grenzecho.net: DG elects new parliament on May 25, 2014
Electoral support: Parteivergleich.eu for the PDG election 2014 (43 questions to the parties)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b grenzecho.net: The results of the PDG election
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Belgischer Rundfunk BRF, May 25, 2014: No results for the time being - Lennertz: “Super GAU”
- ↑ ostbelgiendirekt.be, May 27, 2014: Ministry of the Interior: Suspicious cards should be canceled
- ↑ Belgischer Rundfunk BRF, May 26, 2014: PDG election: results & analyzes
- ↑ ostbelgiendirekt.be: The new-old majority presented their coalition agreement
