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Thread ID: 14266 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2004-06-19
2004-06-19 23:03 | User Profile
In flanders region of Belgium the party won 32 seats in the Belgian Regional parliament. [url="http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=48&story_id=8579"]Vlaams Blok gains more votes[/url]
2004-06-20 00:23 | User Profile
Immediately after the election results were announced the leader of the CD-V/N-VA list, Yves Leterme said he would not form a government with the Blok.
Leterme said he would continue policy agreed by all of Belgium's mainstream political parties of forming a so-called 'cordon sanitaire' around the Blok.
This means that no mainstream party will form a coalition with the far-right Flemish group, effectively keeping it out of power.
It is pleasing to see nationalism's growing influence in the European homeland. Even if the other parties boycott Vlaams Blok, the situation still turns out good, since that would have the effect of further exposing the sham of European "social democracy."