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Wallonia looks to the left
While Dutch-speaking voters are expected to swing to the right, more of their French-speaking compatriots in Wallonia may turn to the far left.
The Socialist Party is expected to win as much as a quarter of the vote, but its long-standing dominance in French-speaking areas could be eroded by the far-left Workers’ Party.
According to the latest Ipsos poll, the Workers’ Party could get close to 20% in the Brussels region and 15% in Wallonia. This means that its number of seats in the federal parliament would rise to 19, compared to 12 at present.
Combined with the 26 seats predicted for Vlaams Belang, this means that some 45 seats will be taken by radical parties that are likely to be excluded from any government deal. The number of seats in the Belgian Federal Parliament is constitutionally set at 150.
Poorer Wallonia, whose decline began in the 1960s as Flanders’ economy boomed, traditionally leans toward national unity because the region would likely find it difficult to survive economically on its own.
dh/rc (AP, AFP)
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Publish date : 2024-06-09 07:00:00
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