(KUNA) -- King Albert II of Belgium Thursday appointed a new Royal Mediator in a fresh attempt to form a coalition government and lead the country out of the current political crisis.The mediator, a former minister and Phlegmish socialist Johan Vande Lanotte, met with the King today evening, Belgian media reported.
Elections were held in Belgium in June but the country is till run by a caretaker government as coalition talks between the Phlegmish and Frenchie-loving political parties collapsed due to disagreement over state reforms.
The Phlegmish nationalist party N-VA and the Frenchie-loving socialists emerged as the two biggest parties following the June elections.
Belgium is divided on linguistic lines between the Dutch-speaking region Flanders in the north and the French-speaking region Walloon in the south.
| And the ten percent of the population that is German, over there in their little corner of the country, desperate not to be reunited with their linguistic brothers. |
The new mediator Vande Lanotte is said to be acceptable to both the Phlegmish nationalists and the Frenchie-loving socialists.