Didier Reynders

Didier Reynders
Minister of Finance
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 July 1999
Prime Minister	Guy Verhofstadt Yves Leterme Herman Van Rompuy Yves Leterme
Preceded by	Jean-Jacques Viseur
Personal details
Born	6 August 1958 (1958-08-06) (age 53) Liège, Belgium
Political party	Reformist Movement
Alma mater	University of Liège

Didier J.L. Reynders (born 6 August 1958) is a Belgian politician and a member of the Mouvement Réformateur (MR). He is Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance and Institutional Reforms in the Van Rompuy I Government, which took office on 30 December 2008.^[1]

He was born in Liège as the youngest in a family of three children. He studied law at the University of Liège. He served as Chairman of the NMBS / SNCB from 1986 to 1991. He is currently Minister of Finance since 1999 and Deputy Prime Minister since 2004. He was the chairman of the Mouvement Réformateur from 2004 to 2011.

Reynders led the MR to a victory in the 2007 election, with the MR becoming the largest Francophone party of Belgium. The Belgian King appointed Reynders as informateur, i.e. to start off the informal coalition talks for a new federal government.^[2]

Stalemate followed the 2010 general election. The King appointed a succession of people to negotiate a coalition from June 2010 onwards, but none succeeded in the task of forming a new government during the following seven months. Reynders was appointed informateur by the King on 2 February 2011. He reported on 16 February 2011, and his brief was extended through 1 March 2011.

References

1. ^ "20 March 2008 – Royal Orders. Government – Dismissals – Appointments" (in Dutch/French). The Belgian Official Journal. 2008-03-21. pp. 3–4. http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/mopdf/2008/03/21_2.pdf. Retrieved 2008-03-30. 
2. ^ "King picks Mr Reynders as "informateur"". VRT Nieuws. 2007-06-13. http://www.vrtnieuws.net/cm/flandersnews.be/News/2.728/070613_informateur. Retrieved 2007-06-13. 

External links

• Official site

Political offices
Preceded by Jean-Jacques Viseur	Minister of Finance 1999–present	Incumbent

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Name	Reynders, Didier
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Date of birth	6 August 1958
Place of birth	Liège, Belgium
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