Brussels Parliament
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The Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region, or Brussels Regional Parliament (French: Parliament de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale or Parlement Bruxellois, Dutch: Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Parlement), is the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region, one of the three regions of Belgium.
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Elections
Elections of 75 Brussels regional deputies, 89 since 2004, take place every five years[1]. Here is the list of past regional elections:
- June 18, 1989 (first elections)
- May 21, 1995, coincided with the federal legislative elections;
- June 13, 1999
- June 13, 2004, coincided with the European Parliament elections.
Functions
The Brussels Parliament role mainly consists in controlling the government of the Brussels-Capital region, approving the budget and creating and passing laws[2].
Flemish representation
Women representation
Allochtoon (migrant) minorities representation
In the first (1989) Brussels Parliament there was no deputy from the non European minorities, and only less than 5 candidates, except for the Ecolo Maria Nagy Patino, from Colombia. In 1995, several were elected, 3 from Morocco (Sfia Bouarfa, Mohamed Daïf and Mostafa Ouezekhti) and 1 from Tunisia (Mahfoudh Romdhani), joined in 1999 by 4 other Moroccans (Mohamed Azzouzi, Fatiha Saïdi, Fouad Lahssaïni and Amina Derbaki Sbaï) and 1 Israeli (Yaron Pesztat).
Since the 2004 elections the Brussels Parliament is probably the political assembly in the world where the level of representation of ethnic minorities is the highest (near mirror representation) with, out of 72 francophone elected deputies, 12 were Moroccans, 2 Turks, 1 Guinean, 1 Congolese and 1 Tunisian. One out of 17 "Flemish" elected deputies is Moroccan.
See also
- Belgian Federal Parliament (federal assembly - upper and lower houses)
- Flemish Parliament (regional and community assembly)
- Walloon Parliament (regional assembly)
- Parliament of the French Speaking Community (community assembly)
- Parliament of the German Speaking Community (community assembly)
- Commission communautaire française (COCOF)
- Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie (VGC)
External links
- Brussels Parliament official webpage
- Parliament groups
- Socialist Party group (available in French only)
- Liberal group (available in French only)
- Green Party group (available in French only)
- Christian democrat group (available in French only)
