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Move over, Larry Belgian PM's cat Maximus becomes a hit on Instagram
The Guardian
|January 05, 2026
For nearly 15 years, Britain's Larry the Cat has charmed visitors to No 10. Now another prime ministerial pet is proving a social media hit.
Maximus Textoris Pulcher was announced in August as an official resident at the Belgian prime minister's office, Rue de la Loi 16 in central Brussels.
The grey rescue cat is now thought to have the second most popular political account on Belgian social media, with nearly 170,000 followers on Instagram -second only to his master, Bart De Wever, who became Belgium's prime minister in February.
The cat's full name is a mock-grandiose title rooted in the prime minister's love of Latin, conveying the meaning "De Wever's beautiful Maximus" - textoris being "of the weaver", or De Wever.
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