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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (21225)	6/17/2004 2:08:44 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 80904

Gustave > so you'll have to ask some Afrikaans friend of yours to translate No need. I have the internet! babelfish.altavista.com >>Flemish block-system second party of Flanders Spent: 13 June 2004 19.11 last modified: 13 June 2004 22.59 BRUSSELS - the extreemrechtse Flemish block-system are at present the second party in Flanders. That becomes clear from a forecast of the Flemish public broadcasting VRT after the region elections of Sunday. The block-system would end up on 24 per cent of the votes. The Flemish Christian democrats end winner would be of the elections with 27 per cent. The purple government parties suffer heavy losses. The liberal VLD of premier Verhofstadt, who can come at national level also in the problems, ends up on 20 per cent. The Socialists (SP. a) of Stevaert would fall unexpectedly to the fourth place with 19.5 percent. Greenness obtains, however, the molar threshold of 5 per cent with a predicted result of 7.5 percent. For the shaping of a Flemish regional government three parties would be necessary the Flemish love block-system the power. The Croo say to the liberal Belgian Chairman of the House of Parliament that the strong loss of its party with wide 5 percent point is the consequence of accepting the migrant voting right at municipality Council elections and the heavy mutual fight about this within the VLD. Also the block-system head pieces say their thank victory to have to the fight about this within the VLD. Vanhecke According to block-system President Vanhecke further the condemnation recent of its party because of racism is by the court of Ghent a sign "dat now almost a million vlamingen this lack of free opinion expression no longer accepteren''. Vanhecke call the Christian democrats with him at Flemish level a government to form. Vanhecke says that also at national level the purple government can Verhofstadt-II remain not to and question for new parliamentary congressional elections. The block-system is in Mechelen with 31.9 percent of the votes with distance the largest party. In ball work Antwerp the party seems grow also further. The result of the municipality Antwerp himself has been not yet confessed. However, the block-system goes ahead in the region Antwerp with 3.8 percent point. The Socialists remain in the Antwerp region stable on 24.3 percent. The liberalen sink back in Antwerp up to zo'n 15 per cent. French-speaking Belgium In French-speaking Belgium the status quo seems exist to continue, where the Socialists with wide 30 percents remain the largest party and the liberalen stagnate around the 24 percents. The Christian democrats go slightly ahead around 17 per cent. The French-speaking person greenness would go ahead in comparison with the dramatically gone parliamentary congressional elections of previous year considerably on up to 16 per cent. French-speaking extreemrechts would not qualify with 4.4 percent for regional seats. In the district Brussels the situation is still unclear. If the Flemish block-system obtains there more than half of the seventeen seats in the region parliament, reserved for vlamingen, can the party the functioning of the district and the national government block. It does not seem however that the block-system in Brussels which obtains majority. The Flemish Socialists would do it in Brussels according to forecasts correctly remarkable well. Abu Jahjah The Moslem democratic party (MDP) of also in the Netherlands confessed Dyab Abou JahJah at the Belgian region elections a very thin result has achieved. The party gained in the province Antwerp, the only region where she took part, a score of 0.26 per cent oftewel wide 1,600 votes. THE MDP are a party which originates from the Arab European liga (AEL), with which built Abou Jahjah also in the Netherlands to the way.<< A bit clumsy, but one can read it.