Domani elezioni in Belgio.Un sondaggio:Vlaams Blok al 40% ad Anversa

[Dragonball (POL)]

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Dal Guardian:


Far right poised for big Belgian poll gains

Andrew Osborn in Antwerp
Saturday May 17, 2003
The Guardian

The Belgian anti-immigration party Vlaams Blok is forecast to achieve its best result in 25 years in the general election tomorrow, giving a dramatic boost to the far-right movement in Europe.
The opinion polls suggest that it may win as much as 18% of the vote in Flanders, where almost two thirds of Belgians live, and as much as 40% of the vote in Antwerp, the country's second city.

That would be its best result since it was founded in 1977. The election is expected to leave the liberals and socialists in power, but that will not bother the Blok: its raison d'être is separatism.

The Vlaams (Flemish) Blok wants Flanders, the northern and more prosperous part of Belgium, to be independent of French-speaking Wallonia, the southern and poorer part, dissolving Belgium as a state.

But it is the party's views on immigration that cause the greatest controversy.

With its slogan "Our own people first", it rages against the "massive presence" of non-European foreigners in Belgium, and demands that the country close its borders to immigrants altogether.

It wants "criminal" and illegal immigrants deported and legal immigrants to be persuaded to return home - usually Turkey and Morocco and other parts of north Africa - with cash payments.

Filip Dewinter, the Blok's de facto deputy leader, said: "We need a stop to immigration. We need to say to immigrants that our way of life is your way of life. If they learn our language then they can stay but if they don't they should go home. A multicultural society is not the solution."

In his weatherbeaten Barbour jacket and handmade brogues, Mr Dewinter seemed to go down well on a campaign visit to the Antwerp working-class district of Borgerhout.

The targets of his campaigning were all white, and few of them were under 65.

Mr Dewinter admitted that he was going after the grey vote. "In cities you have young non-European communities and then you have old [white] people living in neighbourhoods next door. It's a classic problem," he said.

That he chose this part of Antwerp was no coincidence. It was the scene of race riots last year and the area has many Moroccan immigrants, some of whom sympathise with the radical Arab European League.

The tension between the local white community and the AEL, which was blamed for fomenting last year's riots, is acute, and he knows it.

But the AEL cannot compete with the Blok at the ballot box. Although it is fielding candidates tomorrow none is expected to be elected.

"The whole growth of [the Blok] is alarming," said its president, Dyab Abou Jahjah, who is on record as calling the party racist.

"The real problem is that [mainstream] parties are appropriating the Blok's agenda. If the Blok does well it will send the signal that it has been sending for the past 10 years: that this country is going to the right."

Meanwhile the Blok's campaign posters - featuring a blonde holding up two fingers in a V-sign - are plastered all over town. V is not just for victory. It also stands for safety, Flanders, freedom and foreigners - all words that begin with v in Dutch and themes which obsess the party.

Mr Dewinter is confident that the message will get across. Professing to be a great admirer of the murdered Dutch anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn, he believes the Blok is on the verge of a historic breakthrough.

"We are more successful than Fortuyn," he said. "His party only lasted for one election. Time is on our side and sympathy for the Blok is growing."








Last Updated: Friday, 16 May, 2003, 206 GMT 216 UK
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Belgian far right poll boost fears
By Shirin Wheeler
BBC Europe correspondent


Belgium's voters go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new government.

The current Liberal-led "rainbow coalition" with the Socialists and Greens looks set to win a second term, with Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt at its head.

But there are worries that the country's far-right Vlaams Blok Party could see another surge in support in the north of the country.


If people who emigrate here don't adapt to our systems, to our laws, to our values, they should go back to where they came from

Anke Vandermeersch
Vlaams Blok candidate
The party's share of the vote been rising steadily.

Now some are beginning to question the mainstream's strategy for curbing it.

At a typical Vlaams Blok rally the faithful congregate to hear the creed of Belgium's far right.

There are fiercely anti-immigrant speeches and attacks on multiculturalism.

At the core of the message is the call for independence for Flanders, the northern Flemish-speaking part of the country.

The hall inevitably explodes in a rendition of "De Vlaamse Leeuw" - the anthem of Flanders.

But now the party has enlisted a former beauty queen to help present a softer front.

Anke Vandermeersch is running for the Senate in the elections.

As she treads the campaign trail, peddling her fliers and leaflets at the Hoboken market just outside Antwerp, this tall peroxide blonde towers above most of the shoppers.

But it is soon clear that despite the pretty packaging the Vlaams Blok's message has not changed much.

"We still are very much against the multicultural society. We need people who emigrate here to adapt. If they don't adapt to our systems, to our laws, to our values, they should go back to where they came from," she tells the BBC.

Cordon sanitaire

Antwerp is a stronghold of the Blok, its suburbs and centre proving fertile ground.


Verhofstadt's coalition is likely to be re-elected
In the last local elections one in three people here voted for them. They are the largest party in the city.

The only reason they do not hold office locally is because an alliance of all the other mainstream parties, known as the cordon sanitaire, has kept them out.

But conversations with people in the marketplace show many are frustrated with that policy and will vote for the Blok once again.

"Give them a chance," says one bespectacled man at a flower stall.

A woman pauses while buying waffles to say: "Let them get into government and prove what they're worth."

Not everyone goes this far.

But Belgium's mainstream parties are beginning to admit that the strategy for curbing the rise of the far right may not be working.

Muslim voice

Stefaan De Clerck - the leader of the opposition Flemish Christian Democrats - seems to be bracing himself for another rise in the Vlaams Blok's share of the vote, which already stands at 15%.


Vlaams Blok talks about assimilation they speak about assimilation - that's the power of the Vlaams Blok

Dyab Abou Jahjah
Muslim candidate
"The so-called democratic parties decided to organise this 'cordon sanitaire' against the Vlaams Blok, but finally we have to conclude it hasn't helped our situation," he said. "They're still growing and that's a problem."

But the rise of the right has generated another challenger to Belgium's mainstream parties.

The movement Resist claims to speak for the country's young and frustrated Muslims.

Its main spokesman, Dyab Abou Jahjah, who is now fighting for a seat in parliament argues fear of the Vlaams Blok is already dictating the establishment's political agenda.

"Vlaams Blok talks about security, so they start talking about security. Vlaams Blok talks about assimilation they speak about assimilation. That's the power of the Vlaams Blok," he said.

"It is imposing itself on the governing parties without being in government."

There is no chance that the Vlaams Blok will get into power through these elections, but any increase will be a worry and an embarrassment for a Belgian political establishment which has watched the popularity of these Flemish Nationalists rise steadily over the last 10 years.

[Il Patriota]

auguri ai patrioti fiamminghi..il VB è un grande partito..serio..indipendenza della Fiandre..stop immigrazione...prima i fiamminghi..difesa della famiglia..stop aborto..la struttura poi è efficiente e costituita da giovani sotto i 40 anni..insomma un esempio cui rifarsi...

[Dragonball (POL)]

Da tener d'occhio anche questo partito,che pur non avendo posizioni "estreme" sull'immigrazione come il Vb,è indipendentista fiammingo.

[Felix (POL)]

buone notizie finalmente.
Ricordarsi sempre l'obiettivo ultimo: espellere dall'europa tutti gli allogeni, e quando dico tutti intendiamo TUTTI coloro che per caratteristiche etnorazziali e culturali non si possono considerare europei.

[Guelfo Nero]

IN BOCCA AL LUPO!

[Dragonball (POL)]

Risultati delle elezioni:


http://www.vtm.be/verkiezingen/data/home.htm

[yurj]

Triste che qualcuno faccia passare delle elezioni come uno scontro razziale.

Molto triste. Che vi e' rimasto ancora?

[Dragonball (POL)]

Originally posted by yurj
Triste che qualcuno faccia passare delle elezioni come uno scontro razziale.

E' dov'è che l'avrei scritto?
O forse il Guardian e la BBC sono razzisti?

[Felix (POL)]

Originally posted by yurj
Triste che qualcuno faccia passare delle elezioni come uno scontro razziale.

Molto triste. Che vi e' rimasto ancora?

triste che quelli come te invece di difendere il proprio popolo, difendano chi lo attacca. vergogna!

[yurj]

Gringo: non sai a che attaccarti, vero?

Il problema è che se prendi voti facendo una campagna contro l'immigrazione, poi come le mantieni le promesse?