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Parliament of the French Community

*Parlement de la Communauté française*
Parliament of the French Community ; Parlement de la Communauté française
Type
Type	Unicameral
Leadership
President	Benoît Dispa, LE ; since July 15th 2024
Structure
Seats	94
Political groups	Government (50) MR (31); LE (19); Opposition (44) PS (24); PTB (12); Ecolo (7); DéFI (1);
Length of term	5 years
Elections
Last election	9 June 2024
Next election	2029
Meeting place
	Hôtel de Ligne, Brussels
Website
	http://www.pfwb.be/

The Parliament of the French Community (French: Parlement de la Communauté française or PCF) is the legislative assembly of the French Community of Belgium based in the Quartier Royal. It consists of all 75 members of the Walloon Parliament except German-speaking members (currently two) who are substituted by French-speaking members from the same party, and 19 members elected by the French linguistic group of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region within the former body. These members are elected for a term of five years.

The current President of the Parliament of the French Community is Rudy Demotte (PS).

Bureau

Sinсе 17 September 2019 the Bureau of Parliament has been composed as follows:

Chairman: Rudy Demotte (PS)
1st Vice-President: Caroline Cassart-Mailleux (MR)
2nd Vice-President: Matthieu Daele (Ecolo)
3rd Vice-President: Laurent Devin (PS)
Secretary: Jean-Pierre Kerckhofs (PTB)
Secretary: Philippe Dodrimont (MR)
Secretary: Mathilde Vandorpe (cdH)

Compositions

2019-2024

Affiliation		Waloons					Brussels	Total
Affiliation		Hain.	Liège	Lux.	Namur	Walloon Brabant	Brussels	Total
	Socialist Party (PS)	11	7	1	3	1	5	28
	Reformist Movement (MR)	5	6	2	3	4	3	23
	Ecolo	3	4	1	2	2	4	16
	Workers' Party of Belgium (PTB-GO!)	5	4	0	1	0	3	13
	Humanist Democratic Centre (cdH)	3	2	2	2	1	1	11
	Democratic Federalist Independent (DéFI)	0	0	0	0	0	3	3
Total		27	23	6	11	8	19	94

2014-2019

Affiliation		Waloons	Brussels	Total
	Socialist Party (PS)	30	6	36
	Reformist Movement (MR)	25	5	30
	Humanist Democratic Centre (cdH)	13	3	16
	Ecolo	4	2	6
	Democratic Federalist Independent (DéFI)	0	3	3
	Workers' Party of Belgium (PTB-GO!)	2	0	2
	People's Party (PP)	1	0	1
Total		75	19	94