{"id":5708,"date":"2024-10-15T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/equitas.site\/flanders-in-municipal-elections-the-far-right-makes-its-biggest-breakthrough-since-the-second-world-war\/"},"modified":"2024-11-07T19:21:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T19:21:53","slug":"flanders-in-municipal-elections-the-far-right-makes-its-biggest-breakthrough-since-the-second-world-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/equitas.site\/en\/flanders-in-municipal-elections-the-far-right-makes-its-biggest-breakthrough-since-the-second-world-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Flanders: in municipal elections, the far-right makes its biggest breakthrough since the Second World War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This trend was already apparent in the parliamentary elections last June, and was confirmed this weekend in the municipal elections, where the voting rate for the far right has not been so high since the Second World War. The far-right separatist party Vlaams Belang won the municipality of Ninove, a medium-sized town (30 km from Brussels). <\/p>\n\n<p>The new mayor, Guy D&#8217;haeseleer, campaigned against immigration: in his words, the inhabitants &#8220;have had enough of French-speaking foreigners in Brussels&#8221; and &#8220;social problems due to immigration from Brussels&#8221;. He also boasts of having overcome the cordon sanitaire, the agreement by the other Belgian parties not to enter into a coalition with Vlaams Belang, an agreement that has been in place for forty years. <\/p>\n\n<p>The rest of the results were no more reassuring: the nationalists of the Neo-Flemish Alliance (N-VA) maintained their lead over all the other parties, and on the French-speaking side, the Liberals (MR) consolidated their unprecedented breakthrough in local elections.<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p><em>Read also:  <\/em><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-equitas wp-block-embed-equitas\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"p1XJyhnWw3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/equitas.site\/vlaams-belang-il-y-a-dautres-pays-ou-lon-peut-etre-soi-meme-les-propos-ouvertement-racistes-de-guy-dhaeseleer-a-une-jeune-femme-musulmane\/\">Vlaams Belang : \u201cIl y a d\u2019autres pays o\u00f9 l\u2019on peut \u00eatre soi-m\u00eame\u201d. 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