Fédéralistes Démocrates Francophones

The party Democratic Front of Francophones (short: FDF) is a company incorporated on May 11, 1964 Belgian party that existed originally francophones under the name Democratic Front of the Bruxellois ( FDBF ). Your right to exist is primarily to safeguard the interests of the francophone population in the Brussels-Capital Region and in the province of Flemish Brabant, even if the party has tried during the 1991 elections, especially in the provinces of Walloon Brabant and Hainaut to gain a foothold.

In the Flemish media the party is sometimes referred to as " antiflämisch and racist". This contest party supporters, however.

For a long time worked with the Rassemblement Wallon, a Walloon party the FDF. The two parties formed a joint Parliamentary working group and joint electoral lists for the parliamentary elections on 31 March 1968. A key figure in the FDF was Roger Nol, who was very controversial from 1970 to 1989 mayor of the Belgian city of Schaerbeek and as a tough opponent of immigration.

From 1977 to 1980, the FDF was represented twice in the Belgian Government.

As a result of the introduction of new laws for public financing of political parties, which now was dependent on the presence in the Senate, where the FDF but was represented by only one seat, the party formed in 1992 from an alliance with the Parti réformateur libéral. This was expressed mainly in joint lists for elections at national and local level. Through this merger, the alliance reached in elections to the Chamber of Deputies in 1995 and 1999, approximately 10 %, and the party reached a serious size at the national level.

On 24 March 2002, the FDF co-founded the Parti réformateur libéral (PRL ), the PFF ( Party for Freedom and Progress) and the MCC ( Mouvement pour le changement of Citoyens ), the Mouvement Réformateur ( MR). In September 2011, however, the FDF came out of this alliance again.

On 19 March 2006, the Acting President Olivier Main Gain was re-elected after his adversary Didier Gosuin had withdrawn his candidacy.

Important personalities

  • Bernard Clerfayt
  • Georges Clerfayt
  • Léon Defosset
  • Didier Gosuin
  • André Lagasse
  • Olivier Main Gain, acting president of the party
  • Roger Nol
  • Francois Persoons
  • Basile Risopoulos
  • François Roelants du Vivier
  • Antoinette Spaak
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