How does the Belgian government work ?

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Can someone please how the Belgian government works and how can the country stay without a government for over 500 days.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

It doesn’t

*Queue laughtrack*

Okay, first of all, you need to know we have A LOT of governments.

Only the federal government was out for over 500 days, and while we had no new government, we still had the old government tending to urgent and running business.

So no new laws were brought up during those days, but spending was regulated, all offices and services were funded. Urgent matters could be adressed if they couldn’t wait for the new government.

So it’s not like we did ‘t have any government, just not a *new government*

And while all that was going on, we still had Flemish, Walloon and Brussels Capital governments, also French and German speaking governments (the Dutch speaking government is incoorporated in the Flemish region government.

So while we had NO government, we still had A LOT of government.

Hope this cleared it up 😉

Also see [this](https://youtu.be/QlwHotpl9DA) or [this](https://youtu.be/2ehWO-f_6uk)

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