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Question: Do you think Chez Nous will get seats?
#1
No, they won't get even 2,5% in Wallonia and Brussels  (what would happen accoding to recent polls)
 
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No, but they will get votes in the 2,5%-4,99% rango in Wallonia and/or Brussels
 
#3
No. They will pass the 5% threshold in Wallonia and/or Brussels, but somehow they won't get seats.
 
#4
Yes, they will get 1-2 seats
 
#5
Yes, they will get more than 2 seats
 
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« on: May 26, 2019, 12:17:34 PM »

Does any polling exist on where Brussels voters would go in an eventual breakup?
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« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2020, 05:44:03 PM »

There you have why we will not get out of this crisis. Any person who compromises will be labelled a traitor to the Flemish nation or on the Francophone side a dismantler of the Belgian state. The kind of people that read Dedecker for in depth analysis (not necessarily targeting you Laki, but your workerism is part of the problem) will hang people out to dry. Rutten may be a careerist but at least she's not a coward who sits on the sidelines and shouts.
The PDVA/PTB is for a unitary state though? Aren’t they?
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« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2020, 09:56:45 PM »

Why is there a cordon sanitaire on the PTB?
It’s a real party of the working class in that it is free from the influences of those holding the most capital.
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« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2020, 07:16:25 PM »

Exactly what are the relations between the two green parties and PVDA-PTB? Do they get along in local office together? How are they represented in attack ads against one another?
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« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2020, 01:04:27 AM »

Can you tell us more about the workings of student politics? In a country that hasn’t had students play a visible role, I’m interested in how it is in Belgium.
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« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2020, 03:19:20 PM »

I'm a member of comac. Our candidates got elected in the social council of ughent.

Again I take the Dutch view : what is the point of political parties hijacking student politics?
Wouldn’t having a student union/league as apart of party apparatus make the party interested in dealing with student interests at a national level?
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« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2020, 06:38:13 AM »

At some point, it just makes sense giving the Communists some irrelevant posts in the cabinet in a grand coalition and work to sidelining them enough for them to abruptly leave. Sorta like what happened in France with PS and the Communist Party during Mitterand. They’d hope for them to alienate people in government and in the public and, doing so, increase support for the traditional lefty parties.

I mean it’s that or accepting VB taking over Flanders and fundamentally breaking any chance for the country.
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« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2020, 11:14:07 AM »

It doesn't work like that...
And PTB PVDA are not the pcf of yesteryear.
It’s either that gambit or a deliberate minority government of one ideology where everyone else just provides support/confidence and supply. Since that seems further from the table, I mean what other option is there.
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« Reply #8 on: September 23, 2020, 08:48:45 AM »

I believe the proper term in the internet meme space is that Belgium is a “non-country”
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« Reply #9 on: September 23, 2020, 03:38:11 PM »

Belgium should totally hold numerous elections till a majority pops up. Think of how epic the ebin memes would continue to be.
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« Reply #10 on: September 24, 2020, 12:16:11 AM »

How is PVDA-PTB reacting to all this?
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« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2020, 04:53:51 PM »

The next few years will be key to even the survival of the state of Belgium itself. It can survive without a government, but can it seriously survive what is an illegitimate Frankenstein of a not!government while fascists take hold in one region out of three?
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« Reply #12 on: September 30, 2020, 09:51:24 PM »

From the polls, it seems like the PTB-PVDA has hit their short-term “limit” with gaining institutional power through elections. While the Labor movement and Student movement might have some wiggle room, they’ve hit a ceiling I think.

Meanwhile VB has much more room to eat what’s left of the liberals and established Right (NVA)
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« Reply #13 on: October 26, 2020, 04:28:30 PM »

Exactly why are the PTB-PVDA retracting in the polls? Have they gotten in any scandals or is the National mood not “there” with them now compared to before?
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« Reply #14 on: October 27, 2020, 11:11:27 AM »

Exactly why are the PTB-PVDA retracting in the polls? Have they gotten in any scandals or is the National mood not “there” with them now compared to before?

They are not retracting in the polls, if anything they are gaining in Wallonia and only slightly losing in Flanders (to sp.a's gain).
How are they losing in Flanders and Brussels?
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« Reply #15 on: March 10, 2021, 02:23:55 PM »

Thanks for the information.

What has the coalition around the De Croo government managed to accomplish?
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« Reply #16 on: October 11, 2021, 04:25:24 PM »

PTB/PVDA calls for lower VAT taxes
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On Thursday, October 7, party president Peter Mertens called on the federal parliament to pass the proposal to lower the VAT on energy charges from 21% to 6%. As of October 9, more than 258,410 people have endorsed an online petition initiated earlier by the PTB with the same demand.

The PTB also slammed the arguments put forth by the parties in the governing coalition for not lowering the tax on energy prices. According to reports, the government representatives tried to defend the high tax on energy by stating that a general reduction would benefit the richest, and will negatively impact the reduction of CO2 emissions, state budgets and hit wages in the country. The PTB’s response was that a majority of working class households in the country spend a large share of their income on energy bills and that the losses due to reduction in VAT on gas and electricity must be offset by a tax on the profits of energy multinationals.
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« Reply #17 on: December 24, 2021, 08:40:03 PM »

The absurd decision of the politicians to shut down cultural activities, despite even the public health officials saying those sectors weren't the principal problem, has landed the Vivaldi into hot water. All 3 Walloon parties inside it now have parliamentarians criticising their own government. The feckless leadership of these 3 parties havr decided to blame it on the Flemish parties, only to reject any attempts by Defi and cdH to bring the debate to the respective parliaments in charge of culture.

We could see a collapse of the federal and Walloon governments by the time the holiday period is over.
The Francophone minister of culture is also now basically saying she's not going to do anything about places that decide to stay open anyway. Shambles.

She is just following a trend : police basically said they wouldn't intervene in such cases, then mayors, now high level ministers. We are also the hardest hit with the gas crisis because despite 20 years préparation we still didn't deal with energy policy and nuclear phaseout. Civil disobedience is now pretty much widespread and I won't be surprised if we see even the most feckless, benign people such as the Belgians will be on the street by mid January (finally renewing with reputation Caesar once gave us). We saw the Dutch riot for the first time in years.I refuse to vote for anything near a traditional party in my lifetime, Greens included. I may even vote N-VA just to try and block the Brussels Regional Government from forming a coalition.

Anyway Merry Christmas!
Don’t vote for the fascist-lites responsible for how broken Belgian politics is. At least swallow and vote for PVDA as a party that would not have led to this disastrous Covid response.
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« Reply #18 on: December 25, 2021, 10:32:22 PM »

The absurd decision of the politicians to shut down cultural activities, despite even the public health officials saying those sectors weren't the principal problem, has landed the Vivaldi into hot water. All 3 Walloon parties inside it now have parliamentarians criticising their own government. The feckless leadership of these 3 parties havr decided to blame it on the Flemish parties, only to reject any attempts by Defi and cdH to bring the debate to the respective parliaments in charge of culture.

We could see a collapse of the federal and Walloon governments by the time the holiday period is over.
The Francophone minister of culture is also now basically saying she's not going to do anything about places that decide to stay open anyway. Shambles.

She is just following a trend : police basically said they wouldn't intervene in such cases, then mayors, now high level ministers. We are also the hardest hit with the gas crisis because despite 20 years préparation we still didn't deal with energy policy and nuclear phaseout. Civil disobedience is now pretty much widespread and I won't be surprised if we see even the most feckless, benign people such as the Belgians will be on the street by mid January (finally renewing with reputation Caesar once gave us). We saw the Dutch riot for the first time in years.I refuse to vote for anything near a traditional party in my lifetime, Greens included. I may even vote N-VA just to try and block the Brussels Regional Government from forming a coalition.

Anyway Merry Christmas!
Don’t vote for the fascist-lites responsible for how broken Belgian politics is. At least swallow and vote for PVDA as a party that would not have led to this disastrous Covid response.

Litterally the only thing stopping me from voting PVDA-PTB is their stance on so called Communist dictatorships like China where they deny a litteral ethnonationalist genocide is happening.
There is no genocide in Xinjiang, nor is there a roundup campaign jailing regular people by even the thousands aside from separatists. It’s unfortunate that PTB-PVDA believes so strongly in the modern Chinese government, but given that the latest scheme of lying involves accepting information from Pan-Islamists and white nationalists such as Adrian Zenz as fact.
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« Reply #19 on: December 26, 2021, 11:04:36 AM »

So this is all feelz > Reelz, JFC
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« Reply #20 on: December 28, 2021, 02:10:20 PM »

Worker’s Party fights to reduce unfair taxes
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The Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB/PVDA) has intensified its campaign to reduce the Value Added Tax (VAT) on energy in the county to 6%. The current rate of  21% on electricity and gas is one of the highest in Europe. As of December 25, Saturday, the petition demanding a reduction in the VAT that was launched by the PTB has been endorsed by over 290,000 people. Last week, PTB cadre organized street campaigns across the country demanding the same.

On December 22, while addressing the Chamber of Representatives of the Belgian Federal Parliament, Workers’ Party president Raoul Hedebouw accused the Socialist Party (PS) doublespeak, as the same PS which had sought a reduction of the VAT on the lines of the PTB’s proposal a year ago now opposes it being brought to 6%. Raoul Hedebouw also criticized the Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo who tried to defend the arguments in support of a higher VAT on energy.
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« Reply #21 on: January 10, 2022, 12:02:41 AM »

There is no Uyghur genocide given the “independent studies” come from either white nationalists or unreliable political opponents of Chinese regimes. There’s a reason why the basic b••ch NPD of Canada voiced concern about the sources.
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« Reply #22 on: February 28, 2022, 02:49:24 PM »

looooooooooooooooool
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« Reply #23 on: May 18, 2022, 08:12:13 PM »

Workers mobilize to scrap Wage Margin law preventing negotiations to increase wages
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…Working class sections across Europe including in Belgium have been organizing frequent mobilizations to protest the ongoing cost of living crisis. Trade unions and progressive political parties have been demanding a general increase in wages to mitigate the crisis marked by skyrocketing food and energy prices. Belgian trade unions view the 1996 Wage Margin Act – which establishes a strict procedure for the Belgian social partners to negotiate a maximum average wage increase – as a major impediment to increase wages in the country.

Workers have also demanded that the government include the maximum number of working class households under social benefit schemes, ensure parity in wages between men and women, a minimum wage of EUR 14 (USD 15.11)/hour – EUR 2,300 (USD 2,482.62) per month and a minimum pension of EUR 1,500 (USD 1,619.10) per month, as well as reduction of VAT on energy to 6%. The unions have given a call for a major mobilization in Brussels on June 20...
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« Reply #24 on: May 28, 2023, 12:27:43 AM »

If the PTB-PVDA ruins their one chance of government takeover by aligning with PS at any level, then they are done as a party. The cordone sanitare, along with the confederal nonsense, is the only thing making them popular as unifiers not tainted by the mafias.
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