List of prime ministers of Belgium

Politics of Belgium

Constitution

* Taxation
* Constitutional Court

Monarchy

* Monarch (list)

Philippe
* Duchess of Brabant

Elisabeth of Belgium
* Crown Council
* Royal Family

Federal Parliament

* Senate

President: Vincent Blondel
* Chamber of Representatives

President: Peter De Roover

Federal Cabinet

* De Wever Government

Prime Minister: Bart De Wever

Judiciary

* Administrative jurisdictions

Council of State
* Highest court

Court of Cassation
* Appellate courts

Court of appeal
Court of labour
* Trial courts

Court of assizes
Tribunal of first instance

Civil tribunal
Correctional tribunal
Family and juvenile tribunal
Sentence enforcement tribunal
Labour tribunal
Enterprise tribunal
*     * Minor crimes
* Minor claims

Police tribunal
Justice of the peace

Recent elections

* European

* 2009
* 2014
* 2019
* 2024

* Federal

* 2010
* 2014
* 2019
* 2024

* Regional

* 2009
* 2014
* 2019
* 2024

* Local

* 2006
* 2012
* 2018
* 2024

* Political parties

Subdivisions

* Communities and regions
* Provinces
* Arrondissements
* Municipalities

Foreign relations

* France-Belgium relations
* Belgium-Germany relations
* Belgium-United Kingdom relations
* Belgium-Netherlands relations
* Belgium–Luxembourg relations

* * *

* Politics of the European Union

Belgium portal

* Other countries

* v
* t
* e

The prime minister of Belgium (Dutch: Eerste minister van België; French: Premier ministre de Belgique; German: Premierminister von Belgien) or the premier of Belgium is the head of the federal government in the Kingdom of Belgium.

Although leaders of Government (French: Chefs de Cabinet) had been appointed since the independence of the country, until 1918 the king often presided over the Council of Ministers, so the modern era of the "premiership" started after World War I with Léon Delacroix. The political importance of the king of the Belgians has decreased over time, whereas the position of prime minister has gradually become more important.

## Chiefs of government (1831–1918)

[edit]

Political parties

Independent
Catholic Party
Liberal Party

Portrait  | Name
(Born–Died) | Election  | Term of office  | Political Party  | Cabinet  | Monarch of Belgium
(Reign)

|
|
|
|
|
|

Took office  | Left office  | Time in office  | Name  | Composition
1  |  | Étienne Constantin de Gerlache
(1785–1871) | 1830 | 27 February 1831  | 10 March 1831  | 11 days  | Independent (Confessional)  | De Gerlache | –  | None (Érasme-Louis as regent of Belgium)
2  |  | Joseph Lebeau
(1794–1865) | —  | 10 March 1831  | 24 July 1831  | 136 days  | Independent (Liberal)  | Lebeau I | –
Leopold I

(1831–1865)
3  |  | Félix de Muelenaere
(1793–1862) | 1831 | 24 July 1831  | 20 October 1832  | 1 year, 88 days  | Independent (Confessional)  | De Mûelenaere | –
4  |  | Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella
(1790–1873) | 1833 | 20 October 1832  | 4 August 1834  | 1 year, 288 days  | Independent (Liberal)  | Goblet d'Alviella—
Rogier | –
5  |  | Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt
(1794–1874) | 1835
1837
1839 | 4 August 1834  | 18 April 1840  | 5 years, 258 days  | Independent (Confessional)  | De Theux de Meylandt I | –
6  |  | Joseph Lebeau
(1794–1865) | —  | 18 April 1840  | 13 April 1841  | 360 days  | Independent (Liberal)  | Lebeau II | –
7  |  | Jean-Baptiste Nothomb
(1805–1881) | 1841
1843 | 13 April 1841  | 30 July 1845  | 4 years, 108 days  | Nothomb | –
8  |  | Sylvain Van de Weyer
(1802–1874) | 1845 | 30 July 1845  | 31 March 1846  | 244 days  | Van de Weyer | –
9  |  | Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt
(1794–1874) | —  | 31 March 1846  | 12 August 1847  | 1 year, 134 days  | Independent (Confessional)  | De Theux de Meylandt II | –
10  |  | Charles Rogier
(1800–1885) | 1847
1848
1850 | 12 August 1847  | 31 October 1852  | 5 years, 80 days  | Liberal Party | Rogier I | Lib.
11  |  | Henri de Brouckère
(1801–1891) | 1852
1854 | 31 October 1852  | 30 March 1855  | 2 years, 150 days  | De Brouckère
12  |  | Pierre de Decker
(1812–1891) | 1855
1856 | 30 March 1855  | 9 November 1857  | 2 years, 224 days  | Independent (Confessional)  | De Decker | Cath.–Lib.
13  |  | Charles Rogier
(1800–1885) | 1857
1859
1861
1863
1864
1866
1867 | 9 November 1857  | 3 January 1868  | 10 years, 55 days  | Liberal Party | Rogier II | Lib.
Leopold II

(1865–1909)
14  |  | Walthère Frère-Orban
(1812–1896) | 1868 | 3 January 1868  | 2 July 1870  | 2 years, 180 days  | Frère-Orban I
15  |  | Jules d'Anethan
(1803–1888) | Jun.1870
Aug.1870 | 2 July 1870  | 7 December 1871  | 1 year, 158 days  | Catholic Party | D'Anethan | Cath.
16  |  | Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt
(1794–1874) | 1872
1874 | 7 December 1871  | 21 August 1874
(died in office) | 2 years, 257 days  | Malou I
17  |  | Jules Malou
(1810–1886) | 1876 | 21 August 1874  | 19 June 1878  | 3 years, 302 days
18  |  | Walthère Frère-Orban
(1812–1891) | 1878
1880
1882 | 19 June 1878  | 16 June 1884  | 5 years, 363 days  | Liberal Party | Frère-Orban II | Lib.
19  |  | Jules Malou
(1810–1886) | 1884 | 16 June 1884  | 26 October 1884  | 132 days  | Catholic Party | Malou II | Cath.
20  |  | Auguste Beernaert
(1829–1912) | 1886
1888
1890
1892 | 26 October 1884  | 26 March 1894  | 9 years, 151 days  | Beernaert
21  |  | Jules de Burlet
(1844–1897) | 1894 | 26 March 1894  | 25 February 1896  | 1 year, 336 days  | De Burlet
22  |  | Paul de Smet de Naeyer
(1843–1913) | 1896
1898 | 25 February 1896  | 24 January 1899  | 2 years, 333 days  | De Smet de Naeyer I
23  |  | Jules Vandenpeereboom
(1843–1917) | —  | 24 January 1899  | 5 August 1899  | 193 days  | Vandenpeereboom
24  |  | Paul de Smet de Naeyer
(1843–1913) | 1900
1902
1904
1906 | 5 August 1899  | 2 May 1907  | 7 years, 270 days  | De Smet de Naeyer II
25  |  | Jules de Trooz
(1857–1907) | —  | 2 May 1907  | 31 December 1907
(died in office) | 243 days  | De Trooz
26  |  | Frans Schollaert
(1851–1917) | 1908
1910 | 9 January 1908  | 17 June 1911  | 3 years, 159 days  | Schollaert
Albert I

(1909–1934)
27  |  | Charles de Broqueville
(1860–1940) | 1912
1914 | 17 June 1911  | 18 January 1916  | 6 years, 349 days  | De Broqueville I
(in exile, 1914–1918)
—  | 18 January 1916  | 1 June 1918  | Cath.–Lib.–BWP/POB
28  |  | Gérard Cooreman
(1852–1926) | —  | 1 June 1918  | 21 November 1918  | 173 days  | Cooreman

## Prime ministers (1918–present)

[edit]

Political parties

Christian Democrat

Catholic Party
Christian Social Party
Christian Democratic and Flemish

Liberal

Liberal Party
Flemish Liberals and Democrats
Reformist Movement

Socialist

Belgian Labour Party
Belgian Socialist Party
Socialist Party

Flemish-Nationalist

New Flemish Alliance

Portrait  | Name
(Born–Died) | Election  | Term of office  | Political Party  | Cabinet  | Monarch of Belgium
(Reign)

|
|
|
|
|
|

Took office  | Left office  | Time in office  | Name  | Composition
29  |  | Léon Delacroix
(1867–1929) | —  | 21 November 1918  | 2 December 1919  | 1 year,

365 days

| Catholic Party | Delacroix I | Cath.–Lib.–BWP/POB | Albert I

(1909–1934)
1919 | 2 December 1919  | 20 November 1920  | Delacroix II
30  |  | Henry Carton de Wiart
(1869–1951) | —  | 20 November 1920  | 16 December 1921  | 1 year,

26 days

| Carton de Wiart
31  |  | Georges Theunis
(1873–1966) | 1921 | 16 December 1921  | 13 May 1925  | 3 years,

148 days

| Theunis I | Cath.–Lib.
32  |  | Aloys Van de Vyvere
(1871–1961) | 1925 | 13 May 1925  | 17 June 1925  | 35 days  | Van de Vyvere | Cath.
33  |  | Prosper Poullet
(1868–1937) | —  | 17 June 1925  | 20 May 1926  | 337 days  | Poullet—
Vandervelde | Cath.–BWP/POB
34  |  | Henri Jaspar
(1870–1939) | —  | 20 May 1926  | 22 November 1927  | 5 years,

17 days

| Jaspar I | Cath.–Lib.–BWP/POB
1929 | 22 November 1927  | 6 June 1931  | Jaspar II | Cath.–Lib.
35  |  | Jules Renkin
(1862–1934) | —  | 6 June 1931  | 22 October 1932  | 1 year,

138 days

| Renkin
36  |  | Charles de Broqueville
(1860–1940) | 1932 | 22 October 1932  | 20 November 1934  | 2 years,

29 days

| De Broqueville II
Leopold III

(1934–1951)
37  |  | Georges Theunis
(1873–1966) | —  | 20 November 1934  | 25 March 1935  | 125 days  | Theunis II
38  |  | Paul van Zeeland
(1893–1973) | —  | 25 March 1935  | 13 June 1936  | 2 years,

244 days

| Van Zeeland I | Cath.–Lib.–BWP/POB
1936 | 13 June 1936  | 24 November 1937  | Van Zeeland II
39  |  | Paul-Émile Janson
(1873–1944) | —  | 24 November 1937  | 15 May 1938  | 172 days  | Liberal Party | Janson
40  |  | Paul-Henri Spaak
(1899–1972) | —  | 15 May 1938  | 22 February 1939  | 283 days  | Belgian Labour Party | Spaak I
41  |  | Hubert Pierlot
(1883–1963) | 1939 | 22 February 1939  | 16 April 1939  | 5 years,

356 days

| Catholic Party | Pierlot I | Cath.–Lib.–BSP/PSB
—  | 16 April 1939  | 3 September 1939  | Pierlot II | Cath.–Lib.
—  | 3 September 1939  | 28 May 1940  | Pierlot III | Cath.–Lib.–BSP/PSB
—  | 28 May 1940  | 27 September 1944  | Pierlot IV
(in exile)
—  | 27 September 1944  | 12 December 1944  | Pierlot V | Cath.–Lib.–BSP/PSB–KPB-PCB
—  | 12 December 1944  | 12 February 1945  | Pierlot VI | Cath.–Lib.–BSP/PSB
42  |  | Achille Van Acker
(1898–1975) | —  | 12 February 1945  | 2 August 1945  | 1 year,

29 days

| Belgian Socialist Party | Van Acker I | BSP/PSB–Cath.–Lib.
2 August 1945  | 13 March 1946  | Van Acker II | BSP/PSB–BDU/UDB–Lib.–KPB-PCB
43  |  | Paul-Henri Spaak
(1899–1972) | 1946 | 13 March 1946  | 31 March 1946  | 18 days  | Spaak II | BSP/PSB–PSC/CVP
44  |  | Achille Van Acker
(1898–1975) | —  | 31 March 1946  | 3 August 1946  | 125 days  | Van Acker III | BSP/PSB–LP/PL–KPB-PCB
45  |  | Camille Huysmans
(1871–1968) | —  | 3 August 1946  | 20 March 1947  | 229 days  | Huysmans
46  |  | Paul-Henri Spaak
(1899–1972) | —  | 20 March 1947  | 27 November 1948  | 2 years,

144 days

| Spaak III | BSP/PSB–PSC/CVP
27 November 1948  | 11 August 1949  | Spaak IV
47  |  | Gaston Eyskens
(1905–1988) | 1949 | 11 August 1949  | 8 June 1950  | 301 days  | Christian Social Party | G.Eyskens I | PSC/CVP–LP/PL
48  |  | Jean Duvieusart
(1900–1977) | 1950 | 8 June 1950  | 16 August 1950  | 69 days  | Duvieusart | PSC/CVP
49  |  | Joseph Pholien
(1884–1968) | —  | 16 August 1950  | 15 January 1952  | 1 year,

152 days

| Pholien
Baudouin

(1951–1993)
50  |  | Jean Van Houtte
(1907–1991) | —  | 15 January 1952  | 23 April 1954  | 2 years,

98 days

| Van Houtte
51  |  | Achille Van Acker
(1898–1975) | 1954 | 23 April 1954  | 26 June 1958  | 4 years,

64 days

| Belgian Socialist Party | Van Acker IV | BSP/PSB–LP/PL
52  |  | Gaston Eyskens
(1905–1988) | 1958 | 26 June 1958  | 6 November 1958  | 2 years, 303 days  | Christian Social Party | G.Eyskens II | PSC/CVP
—  | 6 November 1958  | 3 September 1960  | G.Eyskens III | PSC/CVP–LP/PL
—  | 3 September 1960  | 25 April 1961  | G.Eyskens IV
53  |  | Théo Lefèvre
(1914–1973) | 1961 | 25 April 1961  | 28 July 1965  | 4 years,

94 days

| Lefèvre | PSC/CVP–BSP/PSB
54  |  | Pierre Harmel
(1911–2009) | 1965 | 28 July 1965  | 19 March 1966  | 234 days  | Harmel
55  |  | Paul Vanden Boeynants
(1919–2001) | —  | 19 March 1966  | 17 July 1968  | 2 years,

120 days

| Vanden Boeynants I | PSC/CVP–PVV/PLP
56  |  | Gaston Eyskens
(1905–1988) | 1968 | 17 July 1968  | 20 January 1972  | 4 years,

193 days

| Christian People's Party (CVP)  | G.Eyskens V | CVP/PSC–BSP/PSB
1971 | 20 January 1972  | 26 January 1973  | G.Eyskens VI
57  |  | Edmond Leburton
(1915–1997) | —  | 26 January 1973  | 23 October 1973  | 1 year,

89 days

| Belgian Socialist Party | Leburton I | BSP/PSB–CVP/PSC–PVV/PLP
23 October 1973  | 25 April 1974  | Leburton II | BSP/PSB–CVP/PSC
58  |  | Leo Tindemans
(1922–2014) | 1974 | 25 April 1974  | 3 June 1977  | 4 years,

178 days

| Christian People's Party (CVP)  | Tindemans I | CVP/PSC–PVV/PLP
1977 | 3 June 1977  | 20 October 1978  | Tindemans II | CVP/PSC–SP/PS–VU/FDF
59  |  | Paul Vanden Boeynants
(1919–2001) | —  | 20 October 1978  | 3 April 1979  | 165 days  | Christian Social Party (PSC)  | Vanden Boeynants II
60  |  | Wilfried Martens
(1936–2013) | 1978 | 3 April 1979  | 23 January 1980  | 1 year,

362 days

| Christian People's Party (CVP)  | Martens I
—  | 23 January 1980  | 18 May 1980  | Martens II | CVP/PSC–SP/PS
—  | 18 May 1980  | 22 October 1980  | Martens III | CVP/PSC–SP/PS–PVV/PRL
—  | 22 October 1980  | 31 March 1981  | Martens IV | CVP/PSC–SP/PS
61  |  | Mark Eyskens
(born 1933) | —  | 31 March 1981  | 17 December 1981  | 261 days  | M.Eyskens
62  |  | Wilfried Martens
(1936–2013) | 1981 | 17 December 1981  | 28 November 1985  | 10 years, 81 days  | Martens V | CVP/PSC-PVV/PRL
1985 | 28 November 1985  | 21 October 1987  | Martens VI
1987 | 21 October 1987  | 9 May 1988  | Martens VII
—  | 9 May 1988  | 29 September 1991  | Martens VIII | CVP/PSC–SP/PS–VU/FDF
1991 | 29 September 1991  | 7 March 1992  | Martens IX | CVP/PSC–SP/PS
63  |  | Jean-Luc Dehaene
(1940–2014) | —  | 7 March 1992  | 21 May 1995  | 7 years, 127 days  | Dehaene I
Albert II

(1993–2013)
1995 | 21 May 1995  | 12 July 1999  | Dehaene II
64  |  | Guy Verhofstadt
(born 1953) | 1999 | 12 July 1999  | 12 July 2003  | 8 years, 252 days  | Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD)  | Verhofstadt I | VLD/PRL–SP.A/PS–Agalev/Ecolo
2003 | 12 July 2003  | 21 December 2007  | Verhofstadt II | VLD/MR–SP.A/PS
2007 | 21 December 2007  | 20 March 2008  | Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats (Open VLD)  | Verhofstadt III | Open VLD/MR–CD&V/CDH–PS
65  |  | Yves Leterme
(born 1960) | —  | 20 March 2008  | 30 December 2008  | 285 days  | Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V)  | Leterme I | CD&V/CDH–PS–Open Vld/MR
66  |  | Herman Van Rompuy
(born 1947) | —  | 30 December 2008  | 25 November 2009  | 330 days  | Van Rompuy | CD&V/CDH–Open Vld/MR–PS
67  |  | Yves Leterme
(born 1960) | —  | 25 November 2009  | 6 December 2011  | 2 years, 11 days  | Leterme II
68  |  | Elio Di Rupo
(born 1951) | 2010 | 6 December 2011  | 11 October 2014  | 2 years, 309 days  | Socialist Party (PS)  | Di Rupo | SP.A/PS–CD&V/CDH–Open Vld/MR
Philippe

(2013–present)
69  |  | Charles Michel
(born 1975) | 2014 | 11 October 2014  | 21 December 2018  | 5 years, 16 days  | Reformist Movement (MR)  | Michel I | Open Vld/MR–N-VA–CD&V
—  | 21 December 2018  | 27 October 2019  | Michel II | Open Vld/MR–CD&V
70  |  | Sophie Wilmès
(born 1975) | —  | 27 October 2019  | 17 March 2020  | 340 days  | Wilmès I
2019 | 17 March 2020  | 1 October 2020  | Wilmès II
71  |  | Alexander De Croo
(born 1975) | —  | 1 October 2020  | 3 February 2025  | 4 years, 125 days  | Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats (Open VLD)  | De Croo | Open Vld/MR–SP.A/PS–Groen/Ecolo–CD&V
72  |  | Bart De Wever
(born 1970) | 2024 | 3 February 2025  | incumbent  | 185 days

[1]

| New Flemish Alliance (N-VA)  | De Wever | N-VA–MR–Vooruit–CD&V–LE

## Timeline

[edit]

## See also

[edit]

* List of Belgian monarchs
* List of prime ministers of Belgium by political affiliation
* List of prime ministers of Belgium by time in office
* Lifespan timeline of prime ministers of Belgium

## References

[edit]

1. ^ Chini, Maïthé (1 February 2025). "Belgium's next Prime Minister: Who is Bart De Wever?". Brussels Times. Retrieved 1 February 2025.

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template