Just four days after Sunday's elections, the German-speaking Community is again the first in Belgium to have a new government.
The coalition of the regionalist ProDG, the Christian Democratic CSP and the liberal PFF has a majority of 16 out of 25 seats.
For the first time since 1990, the socialist SP moves to the opposition benches, together with Vivant and Ecolo. Oliver Paasch (ProDG) remains the Community's Minister-President, Belga News Agency reports.
In addition to Paasch (who is also responsible for Finance and Spatial Planning), the ProDG party will also have Lydia Klinkenberg as Social Affairs Minister. Jérôme Franssen (CSP) will become the new Education and Employment Minister, while Gregor Freches (PFF) will be responsible for Culture, Sports, Youth and Tourism.
Patricia Creutz-Vilvoye (CSP) will chair the Parliament of the German-speaking Community, while Liesa Scholzen (ProDG) will be the community senator for the German-speaking Community.
In French-speaking Belgium, the liberal MR and centrist Les Engagés already announced on Tuesday that they had begun talks to quickly form governments for the Walloon Region as well as the French-speaking Community (FWB).
However, the two parties had not yet reached government agreements or appointed ministers – putting them a step behind the German-speaking Community.
