We’re third biggest in Wallonia and Brussels too (though some have us as the biggest there)
Man that’s awesome! I wish we had a popular Marxist party here…
How shitty are the two parties bigger than you?
Fantastic work ! Love hearing about the good stuff you are doing with your party, definitely inspirational
As an aside for some reason I find the logos for these parties really funny. Most of them look like some kind of drug store logo, the first two perhaps some sort of dodgy contracting company.
Not the Nazis growing at an extreme pace : (
That sucks.
Happy to hear about your party having such great success!
Groen falling by 2.2% points and still refusing to work with PVDA while climate and social struggle are so intimately linked confused the hell out of me.
VLD and cd&v scraping to get past 10%, you love to see it.
How come flemish separatists are always far right
The short version of the story is that there was some sort of tension for a longer time between the French speaking part of Belgium and the Dutch speaking (mostly Flemish) part. Even though there were tension, there never was a serious seperatist movement. The tension was mainly a result of Belgium bourgeoisie being French oriented versus the working class being Dutch oriented.
The tension got hijacked by the Germans in World War I and II with their Flamenpolitik. Basically they promised some Flemish nationalist that they could control the Belgian part of the German territory of they collaborated with the German Empire and later on the Nazis. Ever since the movement remained a far right neonazi one. The tension between the French and the Dutch part later on disappeared when the wealth distribution changed from Wallonia to Flanders due to the decline of industrial forces in Wallonia, so the Flemish seperatist movement that remained has never grown passed the Nazi era of ideological struggle. No Belgian other than far right ones seem to want to split the country in half.
