Pierre-Allexandre de Maere d' Aertrycke

Jean Marie Bourgeois

To underline this fact the CDF is the only party to have candidates standing in the French-speaking province of Walloon-Brabant who live in the province of predominantly Dutch-speaking Flemish-Brabant. The CDF runs for the Chamber and the Senat in all of the Walloon Provinces and Brussels. Party leader Pierre-Alexandre de Maere d' Aertrycke heads the list for the Chamber in Brussels, while Jean Marie Bourgeois (political secretary) and Christine Dupuis (international secretary) head the list for the senate.

The new party name 'Federal Christian Democrats' (CDF-FCD) is a clear distinction from the Christian Democratic & Flemish party (CD&V) which takes a more confederal stance towards the Belgian union, since it co-operates closely with the National Flemish Alliance (N-VA). The CDF-FCD does not merely approach the future of Belgian and its regions differently than the CD&V it is also a more explicitely Christian-democratic party. The combination of these two is expected to attract Flemish, though the CDF-FCD is not running in Flanders in the upcoming elections yet.

The CDF came into existance when the Christian Social Party (PSC) adopted a new charter of principles in line with so called democratic humanism in 2001 and changed its name to Humanist Democratic Centre (cdH) in 2002. Some dissidents in the cdH felt that in so doing the party could no longer represent them and other Christians in French-speaking Belgium, which led them to leave the cdH and found the CDF. The CDF is a member of the European Christian Political Movement.