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Walloon Region
The Walloon Region has a legislative assembly, the Walloon Parliament. It has 75 members who are directly elected by universal suffrage for a five-year term. The members of the Walloon Parliament vote on decrees. These are the laws of the Region. They also exercise supervision over the Government of the Walloon Region, also known as the Walloon Government.
Flemish Region
In Flanders, the powers of the Community and the Region are exercised by a single Parliament and a single Government: the Flemish Parliament and the Flemish Government. For information about the Flemish Region, you can consult the text about the Flemish Community. [[interne link naar Vlaamse Gemeenschap]] The other Regions of our country are the Brussels-Capital Region and the Walloon Region.
Brussels-Capital Region
The executive power lies with the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region . The Government consists of one Minister-President and four ministers, two of them French-speaking and two Dutch-speaking. Three State Secretaries, at least one of whom must be Dutch-speaking, are added to the Regional Ministers.
Competence
Regions have powers in fields that are connected with their region or territory in the widest meaning of the term. So the Flemish Region, the Brussels-Capital Region and the Walloon Region have powers relating to the economy, employment, agriculture, water policy, housing, public works, energy, transport (except Belgian Railways), the environment, town and country planning, nature conservation ...