Vonckists

Vonckists Vonckisten (Dutch), Vonckistes (French)
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 the standards of the time)
Political alliance	Statists (1789–1790)
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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 Belgium.