Ou en sont les partis politiques, au lendemain du 8 octobre 2000?

In: Res publica: politiek-wetenschappelijk tijdschrift van de Lage Landen ; driemaandelijks tijdschrift, Band 42, Heft 4, S. 575-587

Abstract

On 8 Oct 2000, municipal elections were held in Belgium to renew the local councils that had been elected in 1994. In the Walloon region & in Flanders, provincial elections were organized as well. The aim of the article is to measure globally where the political forces stood after these elections & assess whether significant swings had taken place since 13 June 1999, when the latest parliamentary & regional elections were held. On the basis of an estimation of the global results in the municipal elections of the various parties in the Walloon region, in Flanders, & in Brussels, backed up by the actual results of the provincial elections, one can say that the liberal group strengthened its position. The Christian Democrats, the second most important political group, & the Socialists, who ranked third, regained a large part of the losses they had incurred in June 1999. Although improving their results in comparison with 1994, the Green parties lost strength. The French-speaking far Right practically disappeared, whereas the Vlaams Blok obtained an average of 15% of the Flemish electorate in the municipal & provincial elections, the level it had reached in the 1999 parliamentary elections. 5 Tables. Adapted from the source document.