Political terminology in Belgium

Flanders Belgium politics and handling by the Federal structure of the country, a private political terminology that is different from that in the Netherlands: so-called Wetstraatees. Sometimes the content of a term or another somewhat different meaning because it is colored by the particular community situation in Belgium. Sometimes a whole new Word invented, a neologism. election campaigns are a breeding ground for new Flemish words. ==Glossary[ Edit] ==
 * Active welfare State
 * Major objective of the purple-Green coalition under Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt: more Belgians to a job help.

The active welfare State is trying to make the people less dependent on social benefits, to encourage them to work more and longer, and after an illness, accident or loss to go back to work faster.
 * Arc-en-ciel
 * Fr.: Rainbow. Walloon term for the purple-Green coalition.


 * Apparentering
 * Addition of rest votes per party or cooperating parties in the constituencies to possibly obtain a rest seat . The one who should take a seat on such a seat is called a ' geapparenteerde '. In Netherlands is called something the drafting of a joint list. Please note that in the constituency of Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde, the arrangement over the border of the regions and communities back.


 * Early Retirement
 * Early retirement, EARLY RETIREMENT (early retirement) in Netherlands.


 * Currying Favour
 * The provision of certain services and aid to the voter, in order to win votes or in Exchange for their vote.


 * Community
 * Everything regarding the relations between the different communities and regions.


 * Co-option
 * Parties use the Term appointment of candidates from among them with specific input to indicate for the Senate .


 * Cordon sanitaire
 * Joint effort of parties to another party to ward off from the public administration. Applied to the Vlaams Blok/Vlaams Belang.


 * Cumulation
 * Accumulation of political and administrative functions (making conflict of interest in the hand can be worked).


 * Separation
 * Countering or undo of ' cumulation '.


 * Staff Is Raised
 * Candidates on a list that directly-in order to be eligible.


 * Community senator
 * Directly-elected senator, which is delegated by one of the 21 Community parliaments in Belgium. The Senate also counts 10 directly elected ' co-opted ' senators.


 * Free-politics
 * Steve Stevaert 's political strategy of the SP.a to public goods, especially for the underprivileged, to provide free.


 * Generation pact
 * 2005 Pact on employment and pensions.


 * Cartel
 * List connection but the candidates stand together on one list.


 * Core Cabinet (or simply "core")
 * The Group of chief ministers (namely the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Ministers). Francophones have the same term: le "core" (or also called conseil des ministres restreint).


 * Nuclear Phase-out
 * Term for the abolition of nuclear energy in Belgium, which is decided by the first Purple-Green coalition.


 * SMEs
 * The small and medium-sized enterprises.


 * Lijstduwer
 * Term usually used in Belgium for a known person on one of the lowest places on an electoral list, ineligible and therefore normally only acts as a trigger for the party vote.


 * Dung Beetles
 * Term used to describe VLDChairman Karel De Gucht has designated members of the Vlaams Blok .


 * Model State
 * Election promise of the VLD for Belgium.


 * Open culture of debate
 * Open discussions within the Government.


 * Successors
 * Term for people who do not directly in order to be eligible, but that the ' effective ' follow up when that blow-off. They are elected as successor; Unlike in the Netherlands ' effective ' lower-ranking candidates not slide upwards.


 * Mating Dance
 * Lonk behavior of the CD & V in order to break into the coalition of VLD and SP.a.


 * Parity
 * Constitutional protection of the French minority; Each Federal Government must in addition to the Prime Minister (Prime Minister) as many French-speaking as Dutch-speaking ministers count. In practice it means that for each language group up to 7 ministers (excluding premier).


 * Low Dietsch
 * Linguistic designation for the Limburgish-Ripuarian dialect in the northeast of the province of Liège. See the entries Platdietse region and low Dietsch.


 * Pluriform
 * Open to other political opinions and willing to cooperate.


 * Crack List
 * Fork of an existing political party.


 * Fast-Belgian-law
 * Common term for the Belgian naturalisation Act.


 * Compulsory Voting
 * Kind of attendance for each voting duty Belgian in and outside Belgium. By proxy votes and blank or invalid votes are allowed. Who commits an offense that can be punished not agrees with a reprimand or fine. Who not agree four or more times within 15 years risks withdrawal of the right to vote for a period of ten years and in addition, exclusion of appointments, promotions or awards of the public authority for that period. Hardly the sanctions imposed In practice.


 * Teletubbies
 * Nickname for four Socialist Partycampaign leaders. The election campaign in Belgium is also to a large extent conducted via television.


 * Time Pairs
 * The ability to make more long working hours, a period that can be saved for later take more rest periods.


 * Widening
 * Strengthening the party by bringing in defectors from other parties.


 * Black Sunday
 * Term for the day on which the Vlaams Blok broke through at elections. Until May 2003, there are already three of those days.


 * Whip Party
 * Opposition party with some of her positions that can influence government policy.