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{{Short description|Political party in French-speaking Belgium}}
{{for|the political alliance in France|Reformist Movement (France)}}
{{Infobox political party
| colorcode        = {{Political party data|color}}
| native_name      = Mouvement réformateur
| abbreviation     = MR
| logo             = Mouvement réformateur 2023.svg
| president        = [[Georges-Louis Bouchez]]
| foundation       = {{start date and age|2002|03|24|df=y}}
| merger           = {{ublist
 | [[Liberal Reformist Party (Belgium)|Liberal Reformist Party]]
 | [[Citizens' Movement for Change]]
 | [[Democratic Front of Francophones]]
}}
| think_tank       = [[Centre Jean Gol]]
| student_wing     = Fédération des Étudiants Libéraux
| youth_wing       = Jeunes MR
| headquarters     = National Secretariat<br>Avenue de la Toison D'Or 84-86<br>1060 <br>[[Brussels]], [[Belgium]]
| ideology         = {{ublist
 | [[Liberalism]] ([[Liberalism in Belgium|Belgian]])
 | [[Pro-Europeanism]]
}}
| position         = [[Centre-right politics|Centre-right]]
| international    = [[Liberal International]]
| european         = [[Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party|Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe]]
| europarl         = [[Renew Europe]]
| slogan           = ''L’Avenir s’éclaire''<br>('The Future is Brighter')
| regional         = [[Benelux Parliament|Liberal Group]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.beneluxparl.eu/nl/politieke-fracties/ |title= Politieke fracties  |website=[[Benelux Parliament]] |language=nl |access-date=8 August 2023}}</ref>
| affiliation1_title = Flemish counterpart
| affiliation1     = [[Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten|Open VLD]]
| affiliation2_title = German-speaking counterpart
| affiliation2     = [[Partei für Freiheit und Fortschritt|Party for Freedom and Progress]]
| seats1_title     = [[Chamber of Representatives (Belgium)|Chamber of Representatives]]<br>(French-speaking seats)
| seats1           = {{Political party data|seat composition bar|ms-lower-house|constituency=60|percent=yes}} <!-- Values obtained from Wikidata; to edit, see https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q533384 -->
| seats2_title     = [[Senate (Belgium)|Senate]]<br>(French-speaking seats)
| seats2           = {{Political party data|seat composition bar|ms-upper-house|constituency=24|percent=yes}} <!--  Values obtained from Wikidata; to edit, see https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q533384 -->
| seats3_title     = [[Walloon Parliament]]
| seats3           = {{Composition bar|20|75|hex={{party color|Reformist Movement (2023)}}}}
| seats4_title     = [[Parliament of the French Community]]
| seats4           = {{Composition bar|32|94|hex={{party color|Reformist Movement (2023)}}}}
| seats5_title     = [[Parliament of the German-speaking Community]]
| seats5           = {{Composition bar|3|25|hex={{party color|Reformist Movement (2023)}}}}
| seats6_title     = [[Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region|Brussels Parliament]]<br>(French-speaking seats)
| seats6           = {{Composition bar|18|72|hex={{party color|Reformist Movement (2023)}}}}
| seats7_title     = [[European Parliament]]<br>([[French-speaking electoral college|French-speaking seats]])
| seats7           = {{Political party data|seat composition bar|EP|percent=yes}}  <!-- Values obtained from Wikidata; to edit, see https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q533384 -->
| seats8_title     = [[Benelux Parliament]]
| seats8           = {{Composition bar|3|22|hex={{party color|Reformist Movement (2023)}}}}
| colours          = {{Color box|{{party color|Reformist Movement (2023)}}|border=darkgray}} [[Blue]]
| website          = {{Political party data|website}}
| country          = Belgium
}}
The '''Reformist Movement'''<ref>{{cite web |last1=Walsh |first1=David |title=Belgium: New seven-party coalition government officially sworn in |url=https://www.euronews.com/2020/10/02/belgium-s-seven-party-coalition-government-sworn-in-after-nearly-500-days-of-negotiations |website=[[Euronews]] |access-date=4 January 2021 |language=en |date=2 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Birnbaum |first1=Michael |title=Without a government for a year, Belgium shows what happens to politics without politicians |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/without-a-government-for-a-year-belgium-shows-what-happens-to-politics-without-politicians/2019/12/19/5c13cb48-20de-11ea-b034-de7dc2b5199b_story.html |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=4 January 2021 |language=en |date=20 December 2019}}</ref> ({{langx|fr|Mouvement réformateur}}, {{IPA|fr|muvmɑ̃ ʁefɔʁmatœʁ|pron}}, '''MR''') is a [[liberalism in Belgium|liberal]]<ref name="Nordsieck">{{Cite web|url=http://parties-and-elections.eu/wallonia.html|title=Wallonia/Belgium|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|date=2019|website=Parties and Elections in Europe}}</ref><ref name="almeida">{{Cite web|url=http://www.unc.edu/depts/europe/conferences/tgsw/documents/TGSW_Almeida_Paper.pdf |title=Liberal Parties and European Integration |last=Almeida |first=Dimitri}}</ref><ref name="HayMenon2007">{{cite book|author1=Colin Hay|author2=Anand Menon|title=European Politics|url=https://archive.org/details/europeanpolitics00hayc|url-access=registration|date=18 January 2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-928428-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/europeanpolitics00hayc/page/92 92]}}</ref> [[French Community of Belgium|French-speaking]] [[Political parties in Belgium|political party in Belgium]], which includes [[Social liberalism|social-liberal]]<ref name="chardon1">{{cite web |last=Chardon |first=Frédéric |title=Des libéraux veulent créer un courant progressiste au MR: avec Christine Defraigne à leur tête? |url=https://www.lalibre.be/belgique/politique-belge/2019/03/19/des-liberaux-veulent-creer-un-courant-progressiste-au-mr-avec-christine-defraigne-a-leur-tete-2ML6ARLUEJE5VJANQW2F55ZPTM/ |access-date=2022-01-02 |website=La Libre.be |language=fr}}</ref><ref name="lesoir1">{{cite web |date=2019-11-26 |title=RLP, le nouveau «Rassemblement des libéraux progressistes» au sein du MR |url=https://www.lesoir.be/262769/article/2019-11-26/rlp-le-nouveau-rassemblement-des-liberaux-progressistes-au-sein-du-mr |access-date=2022-01-02 |website=Le Soir |language=fr}}</ref><ref name="Almeida2012">{{cite book |author=Dimitri Almeida |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zGzZ0MpDjtsC&pg=PA107 |title=The Impact of European Integration on Political Parties: Beyond the Permissive Consensus |publisher=Routledge |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-415-69374-5 |page=107}}</ref> and [[Conservative liberalism|conservative-liberal]] factions.<ref name="Slomp2011">{{cite book|author=Hans Slomp|title=Europe, A Political Profile: An American Companion to European Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LmfAPmwE6YYC&pg=PA465|access-date=23 August 2012|date=30 September 2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-39182-8|page=465}}</ref><ref name="StarkeKaasch2013">{{cite book|author1=Peter Starke|author2=Alexandra Kaasch|author3=Franca Van Hooren|title=The Welfare State as Crisis Manager: Explaining the Diversity of Policy Responses to Economic Crisis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BtMQsESYcWwC&pg=PA192|date=7 May 2013|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-1-137-31484-0|page=192}}</ref> Stemming from the Belgian Liberal Party founded in 1846, the MR is one of the oldest parties on the European continent.<ref>{{Cite web |title=MR and Open VLD celebrate 175 years of liberalism |url=https://www.aldeparty.eu/mr_and_open_vld_celebrate_175_years_of_liberalism |access-date=2024-07-12 |website=ALDE Party |language=en}}</ref>

Since October 2014, the party has provided two prime ministers: [[Charles Michel]] and [[Sophie Wilmès]]. It has been a member of every federal government since the 2000s. At the federated entities level, the MR was in charge of [[Wallonia]] from 2017 to 2019 with [[Willy Borsus]] as [[Minister-President of Wallonia]]. It is currently in charge of the [[French Community of Belgium|French community]] with Pierre-Yves Jeholet as [[Minister-President of the French Community|Minister-President of the French community]].

The MR emerged victorious from the 2024 elections, becoming the leading French-speaking party. [[2024 Belgian regional elections|In Wallonia]], the party came out on top with 29.6% of the vote. [[2024 Belgian regional elections|In Brussels]], the MR also placed first, with 25.9% of the vote. Just a few days after the elections, the MR announced it would work closely with [[Les Engagés]] to quickly form governments in the Walloon Region and the French community.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Times |first=The Brussels |title='A collaboration, not a fusion': MR and Les Engagés will work together in all governments |url=https://www.brusselstimes.com/1088944/a-collaboration-not-a-fusion-mr-and-les-engages-will-work-together-in-all-governments |access-date=2024-07-12 |website=www.brusselstimes.com |language=en}}</ref> Having a majority on the French-speaking side of the [[2024 Belgian federal election|Federal parliament]], they joined forces to work on the formation of a new Belgian government.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Times |first=The Brussels |title=What's the latest on Belgium's Federal Government formation? |url=https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1132172/whats-the-latest-on-belgiums-federal-government-formation |access-date=2024-07-12 |website=www.brusselstimes.com |language=en}}</ref>

The MR is an alliance between three French-speaking and one German-speaking liberal parties. The [[Liberal Reformist Party (Belgium)|Liberal Reformist Party]] (PRL) and the [[Fédéralistes Démocrates Francophones|Francophone Democratic Federalists]] (FDF) started the alliance in 1993, and were joined in 1998 by the [[Mouvement des Citoyens pour le Changement|Citizens' Movement for Change]] (MCC). The alliance was then known as the PRL-FDF-MCC federation. The alliance became the MR during a congress in 2002, where the German-speaking liberal party, the [[Partei für Freiheit und Fortschritt|Party for Freedom and Progress]] joined as well.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mr.be/PDF/Statuts-MR.pdf|title=Le Mouvement Réformateur: Statuts|publisher=The Reformist Movement|access-date=2007-07-08|language=fr|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928025708/http://www.mr.be/PDF/Statuts-MR.pdf|archive-date=2007-09-28}}</ref> The label PRL is no longer used, and the three other parties still use their own names. The MR is a member of [[Liberal International]] and the [[Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party|Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe]] (ALDE) Party. However, on 25 September 2011, the FDF decided to leave the coalition. They did not agree with the manner in which president [[Charles Michel (Belgian politician)|Charles Michel]] defended the rights of the French-speaking people in the agreement concerning the splitting of the [[Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde]] district, during the [[2010–11 Belgian government formation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.deredactie.be/permalink/1.1119060|title=FDF almost unanimously votes in favour of split with MR|date=25 September 2011 |publisher=deredactie.be|access-date=2011-09-25|language=nl}}</ref>