Vivaldi coalition

The Vivaldi coalition (Dutch: Vivaldicoalitie; French: la coalition Vivaldi) is a neologism[1] 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 CDU (black), SPD (red), FDP (yellow) and Greens (green) is occasionally referred to in Germany as the Zimbabwe coalition (German: Simbabwe-Koalition), after the colours of the Zimbabwean flag[2] or the Ghana coalition (German: Ghana-Koalition), after the colours of the Ghanan flag.

[3] 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: The term was first introduced by the newspaper La Libre Belgique in December 2019, during the 2019–2020 Belgian government formation.

[4] The first government from that combination was ultimately the De Croo Government.