ince outgoing Prime Minister Alexander De Croo (Open VLD) offered the resignation of his government to the King the day after the elections – as is standard procedure in Belgium – the country is now led by a government “in current affairs”. What exactly does that mean?
Many Belgians may still remember the 541 days that the Federal Government spent in caretaker affairs after the 2010 elections, or the 652 days without an elected government after Charles Michel’s government fell in December 2018 and before De Croo’s new government took the oath in October 2020.