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The Federal Government of Belgium ((オランダ語:Federale regering), (フランス語:Gouvernement fédéral), (ドイツ語:Föderalregierung)) exercises executive power in the Kingdom of Belgium. It consists of ministers and secretaries of state ("junior", or deputy-ministers who do not sit in the Council of Ministers) drawn from the political parties which form the governing coalition. Formally, the ministers are appointed by the King. The federal government is led by the Prime Minister of Belgium, and Ministers lead ministries of the government. Some federal ministers do not have seats in the Parliament. Ministers together form the Council of Ministers, which is the supreme executive organ of the Government (equivalent to a cabinet). The number of ministers is limited to 15, equally divided between French-speaking and Dutch-speaking ministers, according to Art. 99 of the Constitution. Although the Prime Minister is officially exempt from this quota, no francophones held the post from 1979 to 2011. Government meetings are conducted through simultaneous interpreters. The Prime Minister and his ministers administer the government and the various Federal Public Services (roughly equivalent to ministries in other countries’ administrative organization). As in the United Kingdom, ministers must defend their policies and performance in person before the Chamber. At the federal level, executive power is wielded by the government, whilst the Prime Minister is the head of the government. Each minister heads a ministry, and secretaries of state help run these ministries. The government reflects the weight of political parties that constitute the current governing coalition for the Chamber. No single party or party family across linguistic lines holds an absolute majority of seats in Parliament. The former Leterme II government succeeded the Van Rompuy I Government on 24 November 2009, after Herman Van Rompuy became the first President of the European Council. On 22 April 2010, Prime Minister Yves Leterme again offered the resignation of his government to the king. Due to the inability of the political parties to agree on the formation of a new government, the Leterme Government remained in office in a caretaker role for 589 days—the longest run on record for a caretaker government in the developed world—until 6 December 2011, when Elio Di Rupo formed the Di Rupo I Government. Di Rupo is the first francophone to hold this post since Paul Vanden Boeynants left office in 1979. ==Primary government members== The current Michel Government, sworn in on 11 October 2014, consists of 14 ministers and 4 state secretaries formed by a coalition of the Dutch-speaking parties N-VA, Open VLD and CD&V and the French-speaking party MR. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Federal Government of Belgium」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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