Vivaldi coalition

The Vivaldi coalition (Dutch: Vivaldicoalitie; French: la coalition Vivaldi) is a neologism^[1] in Belgian politics describing a governing coalition among the parties of the liberals, social democrats, greens and Christian democrats.

In Germany, a comparable coalition of the CDU (black), the SPD (red), the FDP (yellow) and the Greens (green) is occasionally referred to as the Zimbabwe coalition (German: Simbabwe-Koalition), after the colours of the Zimbabwean flag^[2] or the Ghana coalition (German: Ghana-Koalition), after the colours of the Ghanan flag.^[3]

The coalition is named after the Italian violinist and composer Antonio Vivaldi and references his work The Four Seasons, due to the colors of the political ideologies within the coalition:

• blue (winter) for the liberals: Open Vld and Reformist Movement;
• green (spring) for the greens: Groen and Ecolo;
• red (summer) for the social democrats: Vooruit and Socialist Party;
• orange (autumn) for the Christian democrats: Christian Democratic and Flemish;

The term was first introduced by the newspaper La Libre Belgique in December 2019, during the 2019–2020 Belgian government formation.^[4] The first government from that combination was ultimately the De Croo Government.