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Wilmès II Government | |
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 97th Cabinet of Belgium (since 1830) | |
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| Date formed | 17 March 2020 |
| Date dissolved | 1 October 2020 |
| People and organisations | |
| Head of state | Philippe of Belgium |
| Head of government | Sophie Wilmès |
| No. of ministers | 12 |
| Member parties | |
| Status in legislature | Caretakerminoritycoalition (with emergency plenary powers) |
| Opposition parties | |
| History | |
| Election | 2019 Belgian federal election |
| Legislature term | 2019–2024 |
| Predecessor | Wilmès I |
| Successor | De Croo |
TheWilmès II Government was a minorityFederal Government of Belgium, led byPrime MinisterSophie Wilmès, the first female prime minister of Belgium.
Wilmès had been selected as a caretaker prime minister following the 2019 Belgian federal election, and headed the Wilmès I Government, a minority government with the same party composition as the previous Michel II Government, from 27 October 2019.
On 17 March 2020, the opposition partiessp.a,PS,Groen,Ecolo,cdH andDéFI agreed to give Wilmès the plenary powers needed to deal with thecoronavirus outbreak in Belgium, for a period of three months.[1] This was later extended until mid-September 2020, and then 1 October 2020, to allow completion of the2019–20 Belgian government formation. Upon the end of the process, the Wilmès II Government was replaced by theDe Croo Government.[2]
The composition of the government was identical to that of the last composition ofWilmès I Government.
| Portfolio | Minister | Took office | Left office | Party | |||||
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| Prime Minister | |||||||||
| Prime Minister | 17 March 2020 | 1 October 2020 | MR | ||||||
| Deputy Prime Ministers | |||||||||
| Minister of Justice and Director of Buildings | 17 March 2020 | 1 October 2020 | CD&V | ||||||
| Minister of Budget, Civil Service, National Lottery and Scientific Policy | 17 March 2020 | 1 October 2020 | MR | ||||||
| Minister ofDevelopment Cooperation,Finance and fighting Fiscal Fraud | 17 March 2020 | 1 October 2020 | Open Vld | ||||||
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| Minister of Administrative Simplification, Digital Agenda, Postal Services and Telecom | 17 March 2020 | 1 October 2020 | Open Vld | ||||||
| Minister of the Interior and Safety | 17 March 2020 | 1 October 2020 | CD&V | ||||||
| Minister of Asylum, Migration, Health and Social Affairs | 17 March 2020 | 1 October 2020 | Open Vld | ||||||
| Minister of Consumer Affairs, Disabled Persons, Economy, Employment, Equal Rights and Fighting Poverty | 17 March 2020 | 1 October 2020 | CD&V | ||||||
| Minister of the Middle Class,SMEs, Self-employed, Agriculture, Social Integration and Urban Policy | 17 March 2020 | 1 October 2020 | MR | ||||||
| Minister of Pensions | 17 March 2020 | 1 October 2020 | MR | ||||||
| Minister of Mobility and the National Railway Company | 17 March 2020 | 1 October 2020 | MR | ||||||
| Minister of Foreign Affairs,Defence and European Affairs | 17 March 2020 | 1 October 2020 | MR | ||||||
| Minister of Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development | 17 March 2020 | 1 October 2020 | MR | ||||||
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