ProDG_(Belgium)

ProDG (Belgium)

ProDG (Belgium)

Political party in Belgium

ProDG (German: Pro Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft, lit. 'Pro German-speaking Community') is a regionalist,[2][7] Christian-democratic[2] political party active in the German-speaking Community of Belgium. The party brings together politicians from the previous Party of German-speaking Belgians (PDB) and PJU parties. The party was formed in 2008 and first featured on the electoral ballot in 2009. Following the 2009 regional election, the party won four out of 25 seats in the Parliament and participated in the regional Government of the German-speaking Community of Belgium with two ministers.[10] In the 2014 regional election, the party won six seats and its leader Oliver Paasch became the new minister-president.[11]

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The party was formerly a member of the European Free Alliance.[12] The party is a member of the Federal Union of European Nationalities since 2014.[13]

Election results

German-speaking Community Parliament

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European Parliament

Results for the German-speaking electoral college.

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References

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    Prodg.be: Menschen bei ProDG
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    Nordsieck, Wolfram (2019). "German-speaking Community/Belgium". Parties and Elections in Europe.
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    Emanuele Massetti; Arjan H Schakel. From class to region: How regionalist parties link (and subsume) left-right into centre-periphery politics (PDF). pp. 869, 877.
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    "Paasch: "Moi, ultrarégionaliste? Alors, les autres partis le sont aussi!"". lesoir. 5 June 2014.
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    "Weg durch den Wahl-Dschungel in Belgien". VRT. 25 May 2004. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
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    "Zum Stand der Regierungsbildung in Belgien". Belgieninfo. 20 August 2019. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
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    Régis Dandoy; Arjan Schakel (19 November 2013). Regional and National Elections in Western Europe: Territoriality of the Vote in Thirteen Countries. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 54–. ISBN 978-1-137-02544-9.
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    Christoph Niessen; Min Reuchamps. DESIGNING A PERMANENT DELIBERATIVE CITIZENS' ASSEMBLY – The Ostbelgien Modell in Belgium (PDF). p. 6. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
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    FUEN Members: Regionalpartei ProDG.
  10. [10]
    flandersnews.be June 12, 2009, Coalition accord in German-speaking Belgium Archived June 18, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  11. [11]
    Paasch nieuwe minister-president van Duitstalige regering
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    "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-05-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. [13]
    "ProDG". Federal Union of European Nationalities. Retrieved 13 February 2024.


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