| Mouvement Reformateur | |
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| Leader | Didier Reynders |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Preceded by | None |
| Headquarters | National Secretariat Avenue de la Toison D'Or 84-86 1060 Brussels, Belgium |
| Ideology | Liberalism |
| International affiliation | Liberal International |
| European affiliation | European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party |
| European Parliament Group | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |
| Cartel | with MCC and FDF |
| Official colours | Blue |
| Flemish counterpart | Flemish Liberals and Democrats |
| German-speaking counterpart | Party for Freedom and Progress |
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| www.mr.be | |
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The Reformist Movement (French: Mouvement Réformateur, MR) is a Belgian French-speaking liberal political party. The party is in coalition as part of the current Van Rompuy I Government, it was also part of the governing coalition in the Walloon Region and in the Brussels-Capital Region until the 2004 regional elections. As of the 2007 general election, the MR is one of the largest Francophone political formations in Belgium.
The MR is a tightly knit alliance between three French-speaking liberal parties, the regionalist Democratic Front of Francophones (FDF) and the progressive Christian-democratic Citizens' Movement for Change (MCC), and the German-speaking liberal party, the Party for Freedom and Progress.[1] The label PRL isn't used anymore, the three other parties still use their own names. The MR is member of Liberal International and the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.
Though the MR's original ideology emphasized classical liberalism and free market economics, it has of late joined the general trend of Belgian liberals to social liberalism under the influence of Dirk Verhofstadt, whose brother Guy Verhofstadt led the MR's Flemish counterpart, the Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD).[citation needed]
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2007 elections
In the 10 June 2007 general elections, the movement won 23 out of 150 seats in the Chamber of Representatives and 6 out of 40 seats in the Senate.
Notable figures
- Bernard Clerfayt
- Alain Destexhe
- Daniel Ducarme
- Antoine Duquesne
- Jean Gol
- Sabine Laruelle
- Olivier Maingain
- Charles Michel
- Louis Michel
- Didier Reynders
See also
- Liberalism
- Liberalism in Belgium
- Contributions to liberal theory
- Liberalism worldwide
- Liberal Archive
References
- ^ "Le Mouvement Réformateur: Statuts" (in French). The Reformist Movement. http://www.mr.be/PDF/Statuts-MR.pdf. Retrieved 2007-07-08.
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