2007–08 Belgian government formation partition of Belgium. On November 6, the formation talks became the longest in Belgian history. When the Parliament confirmed the formation of an interim Government, it had been 196 days since the Belgian people had voted out the previous coalition. It was the second longest formation period in European history, after the Dutch record of 208 days in 1977. Talks were interrupted twice by the resignation of the "formateur", which left the political parties waiting for a new appointment by the King. Guy Verhofstadt was appointed as mediator on December 3, with the task not only of looking into the
Kunduz coalition conditions on which the plan would go through. The same majority was used in April 2012 when the government collapsed after it failed to reach agreement with the Freedom Party after seven weeks of negotiations on budget cuts for 2013. After three days of negotiating, the three parties and government were able to reach agreement on a budget in time for a European Commission deadline. Kunduz coalition The Kunduz coalition is a name used for the ad-hoc majority coalition of five parties in the Dutch House of Representatives which was sometimes used when the minority Rutte government could not rely