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| | World Media Watch on BuzzFlash.com |
 | | The shape of the new coalition government will be determined in negotiations over the coming weeks but the outgoing Prime Minister, Guy Verhofstadt, who leads the centre-right Flemish Liberal party, claimed victory last night. |
 | | Mr Verhofstadt, whose party had been neck-and-neck with the Flemish Christian Democrats, led by Stefaan De Clerck, was hoping to retain power with his rainbow coalition, which included the Greens and Socialists. |
 | | Support for the Greens slumped disastrously, according to yesterday's early results, but both the Liberals and the Socialists made gains. |
| www.buzzflash.com /mediawatch/03/05/19.html (2021 words) |
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