Vivaldi coalition
The Vivaldi coalition is a neologism in Belgian politics describing a governing coalition among the parties of the liberals, social democrats, greens and Christian democrats.
In Germany, a comparable coalition of the CDU, the SPD, the FDP and the Greens is occasionally referred to as the Zimbabwe coalition, after the colours of the Zimbabwean flag or the Ghana coalition, after the colours of the Ghanan flag.
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The coalition is named after the Italian violinist and composer Antonio Vivaldi and references his work The Four Seasons, due to the colors of the political ideologies within the coalition:- blue for the liberals: Open Vld and Reformist Movement;
- green for the greens: Groen and Ecolo;
- red for the social democrats: Vooruit and Socialist Party;
- orange for the Christian democrats: Christian Democratic and Flemish;