Leterme I Government
The Belgian government Leterme I was on 20 March 2008 to 30 December 2008 at the office. On March 22, 2008, she said, the Chamber of Deputies of the trust. The government consisted of fifteen Ministers (Prime Minister included) and seven secretaries of state.
This first of Yves Leterme (CD & V) -led government was composed of the Flemish (Open VLD) and Francophone Liberals ( MR), the Flemish Christian Democrats (CD & V) and the francophone center humanists ( cdH ) and socialists together (PS).
With the formation of a provisional government Leterme I ended a nine-month political crisis that was bridged by the Government Verhofstadt III, Guy Verhofstadt. On 14 July 2008 Leterme offered due to internal tensions King Albert II for the first time his resignation, it rejected the request but from.
As a result of the so-called " Fortis " affair, in which was reported from legal circles, that of public policy and particularly on the part of senior staff of Yves Leterme pressure on the judges had been exercised, dealing with irregularities in the sale of Fortis Group to the bank BNP Paribas involved, and thus the separation of powers was violated, the Leterme I government resigned after nine months in office on 19 December 2008 closed back. The king accepted this resignation on 22 December 2008. Successor government was established on 30 December 2008, the Van Rompuy government with almost the same cast as the Leterme government I.