He also served in the Free State Executive Council, most proximately as the Free State's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Health from 2004 to 2009 and MEC for Tourism and Environmental and Economic Affairs from 2001 to 2004.
[4] In 2001, Belot again changed seats during the legislative term: he resigned from the National Assembly on 28 June,[4] and later the same day it was announced that he would return to the Free State to serve as MEC for Tourism and Environmental and Economic Affairs in Premier Winkie Direko's newly reshuffled Executive Council.
[4][5] It was reported that Belot had an extremely poor relationship with the head of his department, Noby Ngombane.
[9] In May 2007, he served as acting Premier of the Free State when Marshoff was briefly hospitalised.
[10] He remained in the health portfolio until the 2009 general election, in which he was not re-elected to the provincial legislature; he was succeeded as MEC by Sisi Mabe.