Council of Ministers (Belgium)

The Council of Ministers (French: Conseil des ministres, Dutch: Ministerraad) is the supreme executive organ of the Federal Government of the Kingdom of Belgium. It is composed of the Prime Minister, who leads it, and fourteen senior ministers.^[1] Federal secretaries of state (junior ministers) are members of the government, but not part of the Council.^[2] According to the Constitution, the King of Belgium presides over the Council, but this has not happened since 1957.

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