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After nearly eight months of talks, Belgium succeeded in forming a ruling coalition, to lead it for the first time by a right -wing national party, as the political forces against the Foundation increase its authority in Europe.
Bart de Wayer, a founding member of the N-VA party, will be Prime Minister. N-VA has called for more independence for Venders, and the half-speaking, Belgium, and for that, Wallonia, paid the French-speaking part, to be confederation.
After de Wayer met King Philip late on Friday, the palace announced that a government agreement had been reached.
“We are here! Belgium finally has a courageous and responsible governmental agreement thinking about future generations,” said Maxime Prévot, Lees Engagés leader, one of the coalition partners.
De Wayer's reaction was initially to X, quoting Julius Caesar on Rubicon's crossing: He dies throwing! (He dies throwing).
The Flemish nationalist will be the first politician N-VA to become prime minister, after he led the party since 2004. Antirip's mayor, the second largest city in the country, since 2013.
As a mayor, he called for strong measures to abandon the smuggling of cocaine in the port of Antwerp, including connecting to the army.
He recently wrote I woke upBlame Blame on a “Good Part of the Intellectual Election” to push people towards more extreme groups.
De Weaver will join the ranks of an increasing number of leaders of the extremist European Union, causing concern between Brussels officials and middle governments over a possible shortage of unity against Russia in the war in Ukraine and in dealing with US President Donald Trump.
If the constitutional oath is on Monday, one of the first dates for De Wever may be the presence of the decline of European Union leaders focusing on European defense.
The new coalition, known as Arizona, will include the colors of the parties that are compatible with the colors of the American state flag, as well as the Flemish Christian Democrats (CD & V) and the left -wing, on the side of the Francophone, The Liberal Douvement Réformateur (Mr.) and Centricts Les Engagés.
NV-A 24 has 82 seats maintained by the coalition parties in the National Parliament.
Belgium has a history of long government training, partly due to its regional division, which means that different linguistic and political parties must negotiate to form a common federal government.
In 2011, the country broke the record for the longest time for any democracy spent without a government at the time of peace – 541 days, with an agreement reached after about 500 days of talks.
Arizona's talks have almost failed at the last minute, as talks pass over time and late Friday night.
In the elections in June last year, N-VA won the largest share of the votes by about 16 percent, followed by Vlaams Beang (VB), a far-right party calling for the full separation of Fanders, which was marginalized by coalition talks.
The negotiations between the five coalition parties were complicated by ideological differences in the areas of politics, including financial reform and budget. De Weaver was calling for radical tax cuts and financial reform, which was difficult to swallow the left -wing Party of Formuin.
