Minister-President of Flanders

Template:Short description Template:Infobox Political post The minister-president of Flanders (Template:Langx) is the head of the Flemish Government, which is the executive branch of the Flemish Region and Flemish Community.<ref>See the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium.</ref>

The incumbent officeholder is Matthias Diependaele, who took over from Jan Jambon, following the 2024 Belgian regional elections. The current government is made up of three parties, the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), Vooruit, and Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V). The ministers were sworn in on 30 September 2024. The government consists of nine ministers, five for the N-VA, two for Vooruit and two for CD&V.

Appointment

Following the election of the Flemish Parliament, a Flemish Government is formed with a maximum of eleven ministers. The largest party in the government coalition may choose the minister-president. Following the oath of office of all ministers before the Flemish Parliament, the minister-president alone takes the oath of office before the King as well.

Regional elections are held every 5 years. The Flemish Parliament was elected directly for the first time in 1995. Prior to 1995, the members of the Flemish Parliament were the members of the Dutch language group of the Federal Parliament of Belgium.

• The Template:Ill, the official residence of the Minister-President of Flanders and his ministers
  The Template:Ill, the official residence of the Minister-President of Flanders and his ministers
• The cabinet offices are located at the Place des Martyrs/Martelaarsplein in Brussels
  The cabinet offices are located at the Place des Martyrs/Martelaarsplein in Brussels

List of officeholders

Template:Abbr	Portrait	Name Template:Small	Elected	Term of office			Political Party	Government
				Took office	Left office	Time in office
rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Party color" |1		Gaston Geens Template:Small	1981	22 December 1981	21 January 1992	10 years 30 days	CVP	Geens I	CVP, PVV, SP, VU
1985			Geens II					CVP, PVV
1987			Geens III					CVP, PVV
			Geens IV					CVP, SP, PVV, VU
rowspan=4 style="background:Template:Party color"|2	File:Flickr - europeanpeoplesparty - EPP Congress Bonn (630) (cropped).jpg	Luc Van den Brande Template:Small	1991	21 January 1992	13 July 1999	7 years, 174 days	CVP	Van den Brande I	CVP, SP
Van den Brande II								CVP, SP, VU
Van den Brande III								CVP, SP, VU
1995			Van den Brande IV					CVP, SP
style="background:Template:Party color"|3	File:President of the Chamber of Representatives Patrick Dewael, Brussels, 2009.jpg	Patrick Dewael Template:Small	1999	13 July 1999	5 June 2003	3 years, 327 days	VLD	Dewael	VLD, SP, Agalev, VU-ID
style="background:Template:Party color"|4	File:Bart Somers (cropped).jpg	Bart Somers Template:Small	—	11 June 2003	20 July 2004	1 year, 39 days	VLD	Somers	VLD, sp.a, Groen!, Spirit
style="background:Template:Party color"|5		Yves Leterme Template:Small	2004	20 July 2004	28 June 2007	2 years, 342 days	CD&V	Leterme	CD&V, sp.a-Spirit, VLD-Vivant, N-VA
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Party color"|6	File:Kris-peeters-1391318830 (cropped).jpg	Kris Peeters Template:Small	—	28 June 2007	25 July 2014	7 years, 27 days	CD&V	Peeters I	CD&V, sp.a-Spirit, VLD, N-VA
2009			Peeters II					CD&V, sp.a, N-VA
style="background:Template:Party color"|7	File:Geert Bourgeois.jpg	Geert Bourgeois Template:Small	2014	25 July 2014	1 July 2019	4 years, 350 days	N-VA	Bourgeois	N-VA, CD&V, Open Vld
style="background:Template:Party color"|8	File:Liesbeth-homans-1369839691.jpg	Liesbeth Homans Template:Small	—	2 July 2019	1 October 2019	91 days	N-VA	Homans	N-VA, CD&V, Open Vld
style="background:Template:Party color"|9	File:Jan jambon-1529408527.jpg	Jan Jambon Template:Small	2019	2 October 2019	29 September 2024	4 years, 363 days	N-VA	Jambon	N-VA, CD&V, Open Vld
style="background:Template:Party color"|10	File:2Photographers Matthias Diependaele.jpg	Matthias Diependaele Template:Small	2024	30 September 2024	Incumbent	Template:Age in years and days	N-VA	Diependaele	N-VA, Vooruit, CD&V

Timeline

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from: 20/07/2004 till: 28/06/2007 color:christian text:"Leterme" fontsize:10
from: 28/06/2007 till: 25/07/2014 color:christian text:"Peeters I-II" fontsize:10
from: 25/07/2014 till: 01/07/2019 color:nva text:"Bourgeois" fontsize:10
from: 02/07/2019 till: 01/10/2019 color:nva text:"Homans" fontsize:10
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See also

• Prime Minister of Belgium
• Minister-President of the Brussels Capital-Region
• Minister-President of the French Community
• Minister-President of the German-speaking Community
• Minister-President of Wallonia
• Politics of Flanders
• Flemish Parliament
• Flemish Government