New Flemish Alliance

Also known as N-VA, Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie

Belgian political party

Key facts

Abbreviation: N-VA
Chairperson: Valerie Van Peel
Deputy chairperson: Frieda Gijbels Maaike De Vreese
Founder: Geert Bourgeois
Founded: 13 October 2001 ; 24 years ago ( 2001-10-13 )
Split from: People's Union
Headquarters: Koningsstraat 47, bus 6, BE-1000 Brussels
Youth wing: Jong N-VA
Membership 2018: 45,000
Ideology: Flemish nationalism Liberal conservatism
Political position: Centre-right to right-wing
Regional affiliation: Christian Group

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The New Flemish Alliance (Dutch: Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie [ˌniu ˈvlaːmsə ʔɑliˈjɑn(t)si] , N-VA) is a Flemish nationalist, conservative, and liberal-conservative political party in Belgium. The party was established in 2001 by the right-leaning faction of the centrist-nationalist People's Union (VU).

The N-VA is a regionalist and confederalist movement that self-identifies with the promotion of civic nationalism. Within the Flemish Movement, the party strives for the peaceful and gradual transformation of Belgium into a confederal country. In recent years it has become the largest party of Flanders as well as of Belgium as a whole, and it participated in the 2014–18 Belgian Government until 9 December 2018.