Context: Guy Maurice Marie Louise Verhofstadt (born 11 April 1953) is a Belgian politician, who served as the 47th Prime Minister of Belgium from 1999 to 2008. Defeating the Socialists and Christian Democrats in the aftermath of the Agusta scandal and Dioxin Affair, he was the first liberal Prime Minister in Belgium since 1884., Christian Dupont ( born in 1947 ) is a Belgian politician , member of the French - speaking Socialist Party . Currently Minister for Education in the French Community Government ( since 20 March 2008 ) . Was Federal Belgian Minister of Pensions and Social Integration in the Verhofstadt III government from December 2007 until March 2008 . He is member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives ( 52nd legislature ) ., A politician (from "politics" + "-ian", from the Greek title of Aristotle's book  "Politika", meaning "Civic Affairs") is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking office in government. In democratic countries, politicians seek elective positions within a government through elections or, at times, temporary appointment to replace politicians who have died, resigned or have been otherwise removed from office. In non-democratic countries, they employ other means of reaching power through appointment, bribery, revolutions and intrigues. Some politicians are experienced in the art or science of government. Politicians propose, support and create laws or policies that govern the land and, by extension, its people. Broadly speaking, a "politician" can be anyone who seeks to achieve political power in any bureaucratic institution., The French colonial empire constituted the overseas colonies, protectorates and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward. A distinction is generally made between the "first colonial empire", that existed until 1814, by which time most of it had been lost, and the "second colonial empire", which began with the conquest of Algiers in 1830. The second empire came to an end after the loss of bitter wars in Vietnam (1955) and Algeria (1962), and peaceful decolonization elsewhere after 1960., The French Union was a political entity created by the French Fourth Republic to replace the old French colonial system, the "French Empire" ("Empire Français"). It was the formal end of the "indigenous" ("indigène") status of French subjects in colonial areas., Politika is a Serbian daily newspaper, published in Belgrade. Founded in 1904 by Vladislav F. Ribnikar, it is the oldest daily newspaper still in circulation in the Balkans and is considered to be Serbia's newspaper of record., The Verhofstadt III government was an interim Belgian government inaugurated on December 21, 2007 and lasting until 23 March 2008. It was led by Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt government and contained representatives from the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats (Open VLD), Flemish Christian Democrats (CD&V), the Francophone Socialists (PS), the Francophone Liberals (MR) and Francophone Christian Democrats (CDH)., The French Community was an association of states. During 1958 it replaced the French Union, which had itself succeeded the French colonial empire during 1946., Subject: christian dupont, Relation: country_of_citizenship, Options: (A) algeria (B) belgium (C) french empire (D) politician (E) serbia (F) vietnam
Output: belgium