Political parties in Belgium Political parties in Belgium Belgium is a federal state with a multi-party political system, with numerous parties who factually have no chance of gaining power alone, and therefore must work with each other to form coalition governments. Almost all Belgian political parties are divided into linguistic groups, either Dutch-speaking parties (see also political parties in Flanders), Francophone parties or Germanophone parties. The Flemish parties operate in Flanders and in the Brussels-Capital Region. The Francophone parties operate in Wallonia and in the Brussels-Capital Region. There are also parties operating in the comparatively small German-speaking community. From the creation of the Belgian
SPD party member vote on the 2018 coalition agreement of Germany which the SPD gained only 20.5%, the worst result ever, then SPD chief Martin Schulz had ruled out a participation of his party in a new federal government with the CDU party of Angela Merkel. Even after the failed coalition talks between CDU, FDP, and Alliance 90/The Greens, the party board stuck to the no decision. But in December 2017 opinions changed, the board voted in favor of exploratory talks. After they were successfully completed, the SPD party entered coalition talks with CDU and CSU parties in January 2018. Martin Schulz had to step back after the coalition talks. All