Belgian Politics & Elections: Federal, regional & EP elections on June 9, 2024

[CumbrianLefty]

Sixty years to the day after DR Congo got its independence - better late than never, indeed.

[CumbrianLefty]

Lots of countries could (and in some cases do) manage for a surprisingly long time without an effective government. However, not having one is a definite drawback in any sort of crisis situation.

[CumbrianLefty]

Well if the UK is any example, it is to produce future politicians?

[CumbrianLefty]

Our country is such a joke

A post transferable to many places, these days.

[CumbrianLefty]

A guess of national seat numbers if the results were like in that poll: VB 35-40, PVDA 5-8, PTB 15-20. Averaged and put together, it works out to 62 seats.

14, 14, fourteen seats short of a NazBol majority. In 2020, in a peaceful, prosperous Western European country.

Dear Belgian politicians, how did you manage to fxck up this much?

Its a long story, I suspect.

[CumbrianLefty]

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)

Does it? I would have thought a significant number in those groups who haven't gone over to them by now are unlikely to ever do so.

[CumbrianLefty]

So the "blocs" are in fact almost unchanged?

[CumbrianLefty]

A bit like Corbyn's Labour on steroids......

[CumbrianLefty]

Lots of us are aware of the 1965 Indonesian genocide, and the US complicity in it. The idea that this never gets mentioned by anybody is simply not true.

[CumbrianLefty]

I'm sure some Atlas progressives will continue to tell me how cool it is to live in a PS-paradise though.

They do?

[CumbrianLefty]

Its so often these far rightists who claim to love their country more than anybody else, isn't it.

Funny that.