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
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