The French-speaking electoral college is one of three
constituencies
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of the
European Parliament
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in Belgium. It currently elects 8
MEPs
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When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, it ...
using the
D'Hondt method
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of
party-list proportional representation
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. It elected 9 MEPs until the 2007 accession of Bulgaria and Romania.
Prior to the 1999 elections, electors in the German-speaking community were voting in the French-speaking electoral college, along with the rest of the
Walloon region where they are located; they vote now in their own
German-speaking electoral college.
Boundaries
The constituency corresponds to the
French Community of Belgium
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. In officially bilingual
Brussels
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, electors can choose between lists of this electoral college or those of the
Dutch-speaking electoral college.
Prior to the
2011–2012 state reform, electors could choose between both lists not only in Brussels, but in an area encompassing unilingually Dutch territory,
Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde
The area within Belgium known as Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde encompasses the bilingual—French and Dutch— Brussels-Capital Region, which coincides with the arrondissement of Brussels-Capital and the surrounding Dutch-speaking area of Halle-Vilv ...
. Some towns in the officially Dutch-speaking
Brussels Periphery still have this option however.
Members of the European Parliament
2009–2014
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Frédéric Daerden, PS
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Véronique de Keyser, PS
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Anne Delvaux, CDH
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Isabelle Durant
Isabelle Annie J. Durant (born 4 September 1954) is a Belgian politician of the Ecolo party who served as Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) from 2017 to 2021 and as acting Secretary-General ...
, Ecolo
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Philippe Lamberts, Ecolo
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Louis Michel, MR
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Frédérique Ries
Frédérique Ries (born 14 May 1959) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the French Community of Belgium with the MR/ MCC/ PRL, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
She is a member of the d ...
, MR
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Marc Tarabella, PS
2004–2009
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Philippe Busquin
Philippe Busquin (born 6 January 1941) is a Belgian politician.
Busquin was born in Feluy. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2009 for the French Community of Belgium with the Parti Socialiste, part of the Socialist Gro ...
,
Socialist Party
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*
Gerard Deprez
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,
Reformist Movement
The Reformist Movement (french: Mouvement Réformateur, MR) is a liberal French-speaking political party in Belgium. MR is traditionally a conservative-liberal party, but it also contains social-liberal factions.
The party is in coalition as ...
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Antoine Duquesne
Antoine Duquesne (; 3 February 1941 – 4 November 2010) was a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the French Community of Belgium with the MR/ MCC/ PRL, Member of the Bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats ...
,
Reformist Movement
The Reformist Movement (french: Mouvement Réformateur, MR) is a liberal French-speaking political party in Belgium. MR is traditionally a conservative-liberal party, but it also contains social-liberal factions.
The party is in coalition as ...
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Alain Hutchinson
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,
Socialist Party
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*
Pierre Jonckheer
Pierre Jonckheer (born 5 May 1951) is a Belgian economist and politician, member of the Belgian French-speaking Green party, Ecolo.
Early life and education
Jonckheer grew up in Wallonia and Brussels and studied Economics at the University of L ...
,
Ecolo
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Véronique de Keyser,
Socialist Party
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*
Joëlle Milquet
Joëlle F.G.M. Milquet ( ; born 17 February 1961) is a Belgian politician from the Humanist Democratic Centre (CDH).
Education
She studied classics at the in Charleroi, before going on to graduate in law from the Université Catholique de Louv ...
,
Democratic Humanist Centre
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Frédérique Ries
Frédérique Ries (born 14 May 1959) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the French Community of Belgium with the MR/ MCC/ PRL, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
She is a member of the d ...
,
Reformist Movement
The Reformist Movement (french: Mouvement Réformateur, MR) is a liberal French-speaking political party in Belgium. MR is traditionally a conservative-liberal party, but it also contains social-liberal factions.
The party is in coalition as ...
*
Marc Tarabella,
Socialist Party
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Election results
2009
2004
References
{{European Parliament constituencies 2020–2024
European Parliament constituencies in Belgium
Electoral colleges
1979 establishments in Belgium
Constituencies established in 1979