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Titolo: Il Blocco Fiammingo al 33% - L'Europa si sta svegliando

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Monday October 9 8:30 AM ET
Belgium's Far Right Claims Success
By PAUL AMES, Associated Press Writer
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The far-right Flemish Bloc claimed success in
municipal and provincial elections, increasing its lead in Antwerp,
Belgium's second biggest city, and gaining in the Dutch-speaking north.
``The Flemish Bloc has won again,'' party leader Philip Dewinter said
Sunday. ``Even I had dared not dream this.''
In Antwerp, the Flemish Bloc won 33 percent, up five percentage points from
the last local elections in 1994, when it emerged as the biggest party in
the North Sea port.
The success of the Bloc - which campaigns against immigration and in favor
of independence for Dutch-speaking Flanders - will increase concerns of a
far-right revival across Europe.
Dewinter said electoral success could force Belgium's mainstream parties to
follow the example of Austria's conservatives, which invited the far right
Freedom Party into government after last year's legislative elections there.
However, politicians from across the political spectrum insisted they will
maintain their boycott of the Flemish Bloc and form local coalitions to keep
the party out of local government.
The win gives the Bloc 20 of the 55 seats in Antwerp's municipal council.
But Mayor Leona Detiege said they will keep a coalition to keep the
nationalists out of power in the Dutch-speaking city, which is home to a
large population of immigrants, mostly from North Africa and Turkey.
``We are going to continue to struggle against the Flemish Bloc in the poor
neighborhoods,'' said Detiege, whose Socialist Party came second with 19.5
percent. ``The majority coalition is still standing.''
The Flemish Bloc also became the top party in the northern cities of
Mechelen, with 25.6 percent of the vote, and Ghent, with 20.2 percent.
Projections by the VRT television network also showed the Bloc winning more
some 13.5 percent of the vote in Flanders.
Politics in Belgium is divided between the country's Dutch- and
French-speaking halves, with different parties running on either side of the
linguistic dividing line that runs east-west through the country. Only in
bilingual Brussels and a few areas along the language frontier do both
Dutch- and French-speaking parties compete.
French-speaking voters deserted the far-right with the National Front
loosing the gains it made in 1994.
Away from the Flemish Bloc vote, Belgium's 7.3 million voters increased
support slightly for the Liberal, Socialist and Green parties who make up
Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt's coalition government.
In the French-speaking south and bilingual Brussels, Liberals and Socialists
held their positions, while support for the Greens increased around 4
percent and the opposition Christian Social Party continued its decline.
For the first time, citizens from other European Union nations living in
Belgium had the right to vote, but only 87,000 of the some 500,000 eligible
foreigners registered for the elections.
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Come si può leggere  i partiti di sinistrae di destra moderata hanno deciso
una forma di boicottaggio politico nei confronti del Blocco Fiammingo.  Una
forma di suicidio ben studiata per i partiti della destra moderata: infatti
senza alleanza con la destra i moderati sono destinati da un lato a
soccombere ai partiti della sinistra, dall'altro ad inchinarsi alla destra
che, come movimento antagonista e di opposizione, ha ben altro spessore e
capacità. Il risultatò sarà che alle prossime elezioni il Blocco Fiammingo
non si fermerà al 33% ma arriverà al 40%, mentre i cristiano sociali faranno
la fine del PPI. L'unica strategia moderata vincente è stata quella dei
popolari austriaci, che si sono alleati al Partito Liberale di Haider e lo
hanno messo alla prova del governo.
Saluti
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