Vonckists Vonckisten Vonckistes | |
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| Leader | Jan Frans Vonck |
| Founded | 1780s |
| Banned | 1790 |
| Preceded by | Pro aris et focis |
| Merged into | Committee of United Belgians and Liégeois Jacobin Club (mostly Girondins) |
| Ideology | Liberalism Progressivism Republicanism Belgian nationalism Factions: Centralism Francophilia[1] Anti-clericalism[2] |
| Political position | Left-wing (by contemporary standards) |
| Political alliance | Statists (1789–1790) |
The Vonckists (Dutch: Vonckisten; French: Vonckistes) or democrats[3] (Dutch: democraten; French: démocrates) were a progressive political faction active in the Austrian Netherlands and later the United Belgian States during the Brabant Revolution (1789–1790). They were led by Jan Frans Vonck and were opposed to the more conservative "Statists", although they did initially ally with them for the sake of liberating the Southern Netherlands.