Mouvement Réformateur

Mouvement Réformateur (MR ) ( German Reform Movement ) is a French-speaking liberal party in Belgium. The party is only in Wallonia - including the nine German communities - and Brussels to choose from.

Mouvement Réformateur was founded in 2002 from the union of four existing parties: (PRL, PFF, FDF and MCC).

• The MCC ( Mouvement pour le changement of Citoyens ) is a center-right movement that has split from the former PSC ( Parti social chrétien ) (now Centre Démocrate Humaniste ) 1998.
• The MRLB ( Mouvement réformateur of libéraux bruxellois )
• The PFF ( Party for Freedom and Progress) is a German -speaking liberal party. It occurs in the nine members of the German-speaking Community communities.
• The PRL ( Parti Réformateur Libéral ) is the oldest party in Belgium. It was founded in 1846 as a parti libéral. The values ​​of the party based on freedom, humanism and equality.

Formerly belonged to the Alliance:

• The FDF ( Democratic Front of Francophones ) advocates for the rights and freedoms of the French-speaking Belgians. It was founded in 1964, but resigned in September 2011 from the MR from.

On 18 May 2003, the Mouvement took Réformateur for the first time in elections to the two houses of parliament. With 11.4 % of the votes, equivalent to around 25 % in the French speaking part of Belgium, it was the seventh- largest party in the country reached 24 of 150 seats in the Chamber of Deputies (the second largest group behind the Flemish liberals ) and 10 seats in the Senate.

At European level, the Mouvement Réformateur is in the Group of the European Liberal, Democratic and Reform Party - ELDR briefly represented with currently three deputies.

A well-known politicians of this party is the football player Marc Wilmot ( former player of FC Schalke 04).