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>From Reuters via Yahoo!
<<Just an update on a posted article about Vlaams Blok, the ultra-
right wing nationalist party in Belgium; 10% target met>>
> Sunday June 13 10:29 PM ET
>
> Belgian Govt. Loses Majority In Poll-Official
>
> BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The center-left government of Prime Minister
> Jean-Luc Dehaene lost Sunday's general elections in Belgium, results
> from the interior ministry showed Monday.
>
> With 86 percent of the vote counted, the coalition of Dehaene's CVP
> Flemish Christian Democrats, their francophone counterpart PSC and the
> SP and PS Socialists were set to lose 16 seats of their 82-seat
> majority.
>
> This means they drop to 66 seats, well below half of the mandates in
> the 150-seat federal parliament.
>
> Flemish VLD and French-speaking PRL Liberals gained two seats to reach
> 41, while Dutch-speaking and francophone environmentalist parties were
> seen going to 20 seats from the 11 won in the 1995 elections.
>
> The ultra-nationalist Vlaams Blok gained four seats to reach its
> target of 15 seats.
>
> The landslide in Sunday's elections came at the end of a campaign
> marked by a scare over dioxin, a toxic, cancer-causing chemical which
> was found in staples such as eggs and chicken.
>
> A scandal erupted just over two weeks ago after it became clear
> Belgian authorities had known about the presence of dioxin, resulting
> from polluted animal feed, for at least a month before alerting the
> public and the European Commission.
>
> The affair cost the health and farm ministers their jobs and forced
> Dehaene personally to take charge of tackling the scare in which not
> only Belgian chicken and eggs, but also beef and pork, and even
> butter, were taken off store shelves for up to a week.
>
> The crisis had been predicted to result in a large protest vote, with
> the Green parties and the opposition Liberals seen benefiting at the
> expense of the ruling coalition.
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