Mouvement Réformateur

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Mouvement Reformateur
Leader	Didier Reynders
Political Ideology	Liberalism
Founded	2002
Earlier name(s)	none
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
Flemish counterpart	Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD)
German-speaking counterpart	Party for Freedom and Progress (PFF)
Website	www.mr.be
Headquarters	National Secretariat Avenue de la Toison D'Or 84-86 1060 Brussels, Belgium
Colours	Blue
See also	Politics of Belgium Politics of Flanders Politics of Wallonia Political parties Elections

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]}

[edit] 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.

[edit] Notable figures

• Bernard Clerfayt
• Alain Destexhe
• Daniel Ducarme
• Antoine Duquesne
• Jean Gol
• Sabine Laruelle
• Olivier Maingain
• Charles Michel
• Louis Michel
• Didier Reynders

[edit] See also

• Liberalism
• Liberalism in Belgium
• Contributions to liberal theory
• Liberalism worldwide
• Liberal Archive

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Mouvement Reformateur

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