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![[Flag of Wallonia]](../images/b/be-wal.gif)
by Mark Sensen
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The flag of Wallonia is a red rooster on a yellow background. It
lifts one of his legs, and faces the hoist.
This flag is used both by the French Community and the Walloon
Region.
Filip Van Laenen, 17 September 1995
In Wallonia, the flag is called "le coq hardi".
Pascal Vagnat, 29 November 1995
The rooster shows the kinship of the Walloons to the French
(Gallic) rooster, which is singing, head up and beak open.
Initially, the flag should have been decorated with a cravate of the
Belgian colours, with the dates 1830 and 1912. This was intended to
show that the Walloon Movement was not anti-Belgian. The cravate
rapidly disappeared.
Source: M. Lupant [lup98]
This flag is shown on the Flags of Aspirant Peoples chart [eba94], #71, with the following caption:
WALLONIA (WALLONIE)
Francophons (Walloons)
South Belgium
Ivan Sache, 14 September 1999
The French Community is competent in the Walloon provinces (excepted the German-speaking municipalities) and in Brussels.
The legislative power is exercized by the Council and the
Government. The legislative assembly, the Council of the French
Community, has 94 members, i.e. the 75 members of the Council of the
Walloon Region and 19 French-speaking members of the Council of the
Region of Brussels-Capital.
The Council of the French Community delegates ten of its members to
the Senate.
The Council votes decrees, the French-speaking communitary laws.
The Government of the French Community exercizes the executive power. It is made of no more than eight ministers, including the Minister-President. At least one of the Ministers shall live in the Region of Brussels-Capital.
Source: Belgian Government website
Ivan Sache, 13 July 2001
The French Community officially adopted its flag in 1991.
The flag of the Community shall be flown on 27 September (Community day) on the public buildings of the Walloon Region. It shall also be flown on the official buildings in the same conditions and on the same days as the Belgian national flag. In the bilingual Region of Brussels-Capital, the flag shall be flown on 27 September on the public buildings which exclusively belong to the French Community.
Pascal Vagnat, 17 May 1996
The Wallon Region has a legislative assembly, the Council of the
Walloon Region, also called Walloon Regional Council. The 75 members
of the assembly are elected by direct universal suffrage for five
years.
The members of the assembly shall vote decrees, the regional laws.
They also exercize control on the Walloon Government.
The 75 members of the Walloon Regional Council are also members of
the Council of the French Community, along with the 19
French-speaking members of the Council of the Region of
Brussels-Capital.
The executive power is exercized by the Walloon Government. The Government shall have no more than nine members, including the Minister-President. The ministers may also be ministers of the Government of the French Community.
Source: Belgian Government website
Ivan Sache, 13 July 2001
The Belgium Region of Wallonia has adopted its own flag and own
coat of arms on 23 July 1998. The flag is
exactly the same as the one adopted by the French Community in 1991,
with an identical coat-of-arms too. The authorities can use the same
car flag as for the French Community. Only the seal is slightly
different, in the sense that the words are "RÉGION
WALLONNE."
The Walloon Parliament has also adopted an anthem: Le chant de
Wallons.
Source: Moniteur Belge/Belgisch Stattsblad of 8 August 1998
Pascal Vagnat, 13 October 1998
The emblem of the Walloon Region is also the rooster, and its flag is identical to the French Community flag. This fact has caused some legal troubles during the first half of year 1998: the Conseil Héraldique, Sigillographique et Vexillologique de la Communauté Française took exception to the decison of the Walloon Region to take this emblem, as this matter requires a decision from the Community, not the Region
Albain de Saint-Martin, 16 September 1998
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