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	IslamOnline.net- News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Belgium holds municipal elections on Sunday amid growing tension between the francophone community and the Dutch-speaking Flemish, a rift which is being exploited by the far right.
		The idea of standing for municipal elections was partly dictated by the findings of a research paper she undertook as part of her BA degree requirements on "district contracts", which are urban revitalization programs financed by the Brussels Region or any of its respective communes and designed to give a boost to less developed districts.
		Ozdemir, echoing the majority of her Muslim peers in Belgium, is fully aware of the obstacles that might hamper Muslim women political participation.
	www.islamonline.net /English/News/2006-10/05/02.shtml (951 words)

	Elections in Belgium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Belgium has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
		Elections for the members of Belgium's municipal and provincial councils are held every six.
		The next municipal and provincial elections in 2006 and the next general election will be in 2007, the next regional elections are expected in 2009.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Belgium (489 words)

	Belgian regional elections, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On June 13, 2004, regional elections were held in Belgium, to choose representatives in the regional councils of Flanders, Wallonia, and Brussels, as well as in the German Community Council.
		In the aftermath of the elections, Elio di Rupo (PS) was selected to form a Walloon regional government.
		In the aftermath of the elections, Charles Picqué (PS) was selected to form a Brussels regional government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Belgian_regional_elections%2C_2004 (259 words)

	GENERAL ELECTIONS IN BELGIUM
		But the real losers of these general elections are certainly the Ecologists, who, just four years ago had made a spectacular entry into the government to the backdrop of the dioxin chicken scandal, has now collapsed in both Flanders and Wallonia.
		Apart from the Liberal and Socialist victory and the terrible defeat of the ecologist movements, the general elections were also the occasion for new progress to be made by the extreme rightwing movements.
		Belgium also ensured the presidency of the European Union between July and December 2001 with clear-sightedness and energy just at the moment of the terrorist attacks on New York.
	www.robert-schuman.org /anglais/oee/belgique/resultats.htm (1086 words)

	Federal elections in Belgium
		In the Dutch speaking part of the country (Flanders) the Socialists (who stood in a cartel with a "progressive" split off group that emerged from the break up of the Flemish Nationalist Party) have becomes the second party and in the French speaking part (the Walloon area) they have strengthened their already strong pole position.
		The elections also confirm the long-term trend of decline of the two Christian Democratic parties.
		Belgium: after 20 years of austerity, workers go into action to recover lost income By Erik Demeester, Brussels (October 24, 2000).
	www.marxist.com /Europe/belgian_elections03.html (1386 words)

	Belgian general election, 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The May 18, 2003 Belgian general elections were the first Belgian elections to be held under a new electoral code.
		The fact that Elio di Rupo was learning Dutch caused rumours that he hoped to become Prime Minister, if the social-democrats would turn out to be the largest political family.
		Themes that probably influenced the election results in some way or another were the government's opposition to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the controversy around the nuisance around the airport of Zaventem, the controversy surrounding the banning of tobacco publicity, and unemployment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Belgian_general_election,_2003 (321 words)

	Municipal elections in Belgium - Irna
		According to local media speculation, the two main parties of Belgium's national coalition (liberal/social-democrat) government face serious losses while the far-right, anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim Vlaams Belang party in the Flemish speaking northern region of Belgium is poised to do well.
		Belgium is linguistically divided into a Flemish-speaking Flanders region in the North and the French-speaking Wallonia in the south.
		The municipal counselors of 589 cities and towns in the three regions of Belgium (308 in the Flemish Region, 262 in the Walloon Region and 19 in the Brussels-Capital Region) as well as the ten provincial councils will be elected in the elections.
	www.irna.com /en/news/view/line-16/0610081417134110.htm (268 words)

	Euromedia: Belgium's voting rights debate
		Belgium is considering a bill that would let noncitizen immigrants cast ballots in local elections.
		Immigrant voting rights were first discussed in Belgium in the late 1970s, when it became clear that the hundreds of thousands of Muslim guest workers from Turkey and Northern Africa, who had moved to Europe in the boom years of the '60s, would never go back.
		In Belgium's last general elections, the party Resist, a somewhat unlikely alliance between the radical Arab- European League, led by "the Belgian Malcolm X," Dyab Abou Jahjah, and the Maoist Labour Party, failed to clear the 5 percent threshold to qualify for parliamentary representation.
	journalism.berkeley.edu /projects/euromedia/archives/001891.html (1181 words)

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		He has attended elections in Belgium and again in Sweden, and when the time came for electing Senators in the colonies of South Africa, and Municipal Councils in Johannesburg and Pretoria, the local governments solicited his assistance in conducting them, and put on record their obligations for his help.
		The result of a General Election is thus often dependent not upon the relative strengths of political forces, but upon the chance way in which those forces are distributed, and in a considerable measure may be influenced by the way in which the boundaries of constituencies are drawn.
		At the London County Council elections in 1907, the leaders of the Municipal Reform Party dissociated themselves from the more extreme accusations made against the administration of the Progressives, but the conduct of the elections was apparently outside their powers of control.
	www.gutenberg.net /dirs/etext06/7prep10.txt (14405 words)

	EUROPA - IDABC - E-elections 2004: Belgium's e-voting operations cons
		As in the previous e-enabled election of May 2003, electronic voting took place exclusively at the polling stations through a system made up of a computer unit including a card-reading device, a screen and an optical pen.
		elections held in Belgium in May 2003, when serious delays occurred in voting operations because of the limited number of computer booths available, a series of computer or power failures, the complexity of the e-voting systems and the lack of knowledge of most voters.
		The electronic vote entered into law in 1994 and was already widely used for the last general and municipal elections in 1999 and 2000.
	europa.eu.int /idabc/en/document/2634/601 (483 words)

	Human Rights in Belgium 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		However, notwithstanding Belgium claiming to be on the forefront of the protection and defense of the rights of the child, the Belgian legislator and judiciary have done nothing to abate this severe violation of the child’s right to a family life and equal access to his parents.
		Although Belgium proudly claims its position as capital of Europe and boasts its active membership in all kinds of international organizations and its pioneer status in equal treatment of citizens, defense and protection of the weak and children, Belgium has still a long way to go before it really lives up to all these standards.
		In public schools of the French-speaking community of Belgium, Jehovah’s Witnesses children are obliged to attend either ethic classes (inconsistent with their beliefs) or classes of another religion while in the Flemish-speaking community, they may be exempted.
	www.hrwf.net /html/human_rights_in_belgium_2001.html (5876 words)

	IOM Press Briefing Notes - 2 August 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The IOM Elections Team in Brussels and the Belgian and German Armed Forces on Monday deployed a group of 58 European Union Long-term Elections Observers to Kabul, to provide support in the upcoming Parliamentary and Provincial elections in Afghanistan.
		The upcoming elections for the Lower Houser of Parliament and Provincial Councils, scheduled to be held on 18 September, will establish a separate legislative branch of government and mark the formal completion of the Bonn transitional process, another key step in Afghanistan’s stabilization.
		These elections follow the Presidential Election held last October, which was assessed by a EU Democracy and Election Support Mission, also assisted by the IOM Elections Team.
	www.iom.int /iomwebsite/en/news/PBN020805.shtml (562 words)

	In english
		The elections of 18 May 2003 were the eleventh successive elections won by the Vlaams Blok.
		Given the predominance of left-wing parties in Wallonia, Belgium is always saddled with center-left coalitions, although Flanders votes predominantly for the right.
		The next elections in Belgium are elections for the regional parliaments.
	www.vlaamsblok.be /site_engels_hotnews_4.shtml (459 words)

	EIRO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		May 2000 saw the 13th round of "social elections" in Belgium, with approximately 1.3 million employees in nearly 6,000 companies entitled to elect their representatives on works councils and committees for prevention and protection at the workplace.
		As expected, the social elections did not result in major changes in the balances of power between the three main trade union confederations.
		At the national level, few or no changes were observed, while at the level of regions and sectors, the trends of the previous social elections in 1995 were confirmed.
	www.eiro.eurofound.ie /organisations/organisation_country_be_343_2000.html (180 words)

	Belgium elections: Growing polarisation
		The results of the Belgian elections underline the political instability which has grown over recent years and which is expressed in a growing number of undecided voters and voters changing the party they vote for.
		While the press remained very silent about this, these elections were a new "Black Sunday" (referring to their 1991 electoral breakthrough) with a strong growth of the Vlaams Blok to give them 18.1% of the vote in Flanders, 2.7% higher than in 1999.
		The elections were for two houses: an upper house (Senate) elected on two national lists: a Dutch-speaking list for the northern Flanders area and a French-speaking list for the southern Walloon area, with a possibility to chose between both lists in Brussels.
	www.socialistworld.net /eng/2003/05/25belgium.html (1992 words)

	Belgium Sports Links - RealSportsNetwork.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long per Belgium Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
		The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Belgium The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly.
		Belgium A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
	www.realsportsnetwork.com /Soccer_Players_Belgium.html (1697 words)

	Belgian government suffers heavy losses in general election
		The debacle suffered by the Christian and Social Democrats in the federal vote was also reflected in the elections to Belgium's three regional legislatures in French-speaking Wallonia, Dutch-speaking Flanders and the bilingual capital, Brussels, where the parties of national government also fared badly.
		CVP President Van Peel is reported to have said that their poor election result was because voters were ungrateful and had allowed their panic (concerning the dioxin scandal) to make them forget the numerous services provided by the government.
		On the day before the elections, the CVP arrogantly posed the choice to the electorate: “with or without Dehaene?” Their reply is now clearly “without”.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/jun1999/bel-j16.shtml (865 words)

	European Parliament Elections
		In addition, the position of Member of the European Parliament is incompatible with national public office or membership of a federal or regional executive and with the office of mayor, alderman or chairman of the CPAS (social aid centre) of a municipality with more than 50 000 inhabitants.
		A draft law provides for polling stations to close later, on the King's orders, when other elections are held on the same day.
		For the national media, broadcasting time is decided by the radio or TV station itself in accordance with the size of the parties.
	www2.europarl.eu.int /election/law/en/labe01en.htm (543 words)

	LookSmart - Search results for "elections" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Outlines the qualifications necessary to vote in the 2003 Saskatchewan provincial election.
		Provides details on election constituencies of this state and election schedule, results, political parties, and regional issues.
		Find results of elections from 1920 onwards, view election maps, and read legal discussions of various plebiscites in Spanish.
	www.looksmart.com /r_search?lt&pin=050719x3c8ce86f093525413a1&key=elections&skip=120&se=1,5,2000,0&search=us302562;local_US (359 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Vlaams Belang is expected to win at least one-third of the votes in regional elections in Belgium, which take place on Sunday.
		Six years ago a predecessor party to the Vlaams Belang, called Vlaams Blok, won a third of the vote in Antwerp, but it was disbanded after a court ruled that it incited racial hatred.
		The new party won 24 percent of the vote in regional elections two years ago.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3311572,00.html (407 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Additional contribution by Belgium to the elections in Afghanistan
		This contribution will fund the logistical support for the elections due to be held on 18 September 2005, which will see the members of the lower house of the Afghan Parliament and the members of the new provincial councils elected.
		Belgium's total contribution to the electoral process now amounts to USD 2 million.
		USD 1 million was already earmarked in May (half of which came from the conflict prevention budget and the other half from the structural intervention budget for development cooperation).
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-6FQBJP?OpenDocument&rc=3&cc=afg (171 words)

	Far-Rightists Post Gains in Belgian Local Elections
		Early results from Sunday's local elections in Belgium showed that the far-right Vlaams Bloc took about 10 percent of the votes in its power base in the northern half of the country.
		Belgium's ruling coalition consolidated its overall lead in the local elections as they hoped, according to early results.
		The impact of the EU voters was felt in eastern Belgium, where residents from neighboring Netherlands helped elect a Flemish majority on the Voeren town council for the first time in 37 years.
	english.peopledaily.com.cn /english/200010/09/eng20001009_52168.html (355 words)

	EIRO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		For its part, in July 2000 the government drafted a legal framework for the financial participation of workers in the fruits of growth, which has met with a mixed response from the unions.
		In May 2000, Belgium will organise its 13th set of "social elections" of employee representatives on works councils and health and safety committees.
		In a country where social dialogue retains a pivotal role, this poll is essentially an indicator of the relative strengths of the two main trade union confederations.
	www.eiro.eurofound.ie /organisations/organisation_country_be_313_2000.html (576 words)

	In Defence of Marxism - Belgium
		Even in small and peaceful Belgium, all the contradictions are piling up, waiting to explode in one way or another.
		The recent Belgian elections underline one thing, a deepening social and political polarisation, in line with what is happening in the rest of Europe.
		Very soon after the truckers in France and the rest of Europe had paralysed their respective countries in the first half of September, the industrial workers in the South of Belgium took over and launched their own action, demonstrations and strikes to stop the further dwindling of the value of their income.
	www.marxist.com /belgium.asp (1023 words)

	Discussion@SR -> Elections in Belgium on mai 18 problems ?
		In my opinion they want to (believe me, it will happen) control Belgium like they want to control every country they are in.
		I do not particularly fear them as a party or a representation of the Moroccan community in Belgium but I'm afraid they'll go demonstrate in some of our cities, something which will unavoidably lead to violence as this is how these bastards operate.
		So the radical islamists are causing problems in Belgium and even blowing up their consulate in the middle east.
	forums.storagereview.net /index.php?act=ST&f=5&t=9955 (2429 words)

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