(ANSA) - BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 30 - Sixteen months after the elections, Belgium emerges from the political crisis with a new prime minister.
Alexander De Croo, a Flemish liberal, former Deputy Prime Minister and outgoing Finance Minister, was indicated by the association of seven parties that supports him, as Prime Minister of a country divided politically, linguistically and culturally between the Flemish and Walloon communities.
The nationalists, the majority in Flanders, will be in opposition.
The situation was unlocked at dawn when the announcement of the agreement reached between the seven parties was given, thus putting an end to a political crisis that lasted 493 days and started with the legislative elections of May 26, 2019 after the fall of the federal government of Charles Michel who currently holds the office of President of the European Council. De Croo, 44, married and with two children and with a career as an entrepreneur behind him, will therefore take the place of Sophie Wilmes, in office for current affairs since 2019 with a minority executive who had to manage the crisis following the coronavirus. He will be the first Flemish premier since 2011. (ANSA).