{{Short description|Belgian political term}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2024}} [[File:Vivaldi.jpg|thumb|Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741), composer of ''The Four Seasons''.]] The '''Vivaldi coalition''' ({{Langx|nl|Vivaldicoalitie}}; {{Langx|fr|la coalition Vivaldi}}) is a neologism<ref>{{Cite web |title=Het Vlaams woordenboek » Vivaldi-coalitie |url=https://www.vlaamswoordenboek.be/definities/term/Vivaldi-coalitie |access-date=12 January 2024 |website=www.vlaamswoordenboek.be}}</ref> 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 (black), the SPD (red), the FDP (yellow) and the Greens (green) is occasionally referred to as the '''Zimbabwe coalition''' (''German'': ''Simbabwe-Koalition''), after the colours of the Zimbabwean flag<ref>{{Cite news |last=Debes |first=Martin |date=2019-11-07 |title=Landtagswahl Thüringen: Die Selbstzerstörung der Thüringer CDU |url=https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2019-11/thueringen-landtagswahl-cdu-simbabwe-koalition-afd-mike-mohring/seite-2 |access-date=2025-01-15 |work=Die Zeit |language=de-DE |issn=0044-2070}}</ref> or the '''Ghana coalition''' (''German'': ''Ghana-Koalition''), after the colours of the Ghanan flag.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bild.de/politik/inland/politik-inland/merkel-zu-besuch-in-sachsen-wehe-wenn-da-sonntag-wahl-waere-56696278.bild.html |title=Merkel zu Besuch in Sachsen: Wehe, wenn da Sonntag Wahl wäre ...|work=Die Bild|first=Anne|last=Merholz |date=2018-08-16 |access-date=2025-01-16|lang=de}}</ref>
== Details == 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 (winter) for the liberals: Open Vld and Reformist Movement; * green (spring) for the greens: Groen and Ecolo; * red (summer) for the social democrats: Vooruit and Socialist Party; * orange (autumn) for the Christian democrats: Christian Democratic and Flemish;
The term was first introduced by the newspaper ''La Libre Belgique'' in December 2019, during the 2019–2020 Belgian government formation.<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 December 2019 |title=Dit hadden ze nog niet geprobeerd: gaan informateurs voor 'Vivaldi-coalitie'? |url=https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20191221_04778116 |access-date=12 January 2024 |website=Het Nieuwsblad |language=nl-BE}}</ref> The first government from that combination was ultimately the De Croo Government.
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