Votes

[franceslievens]

I'm giving in: I'm going to watch the electoral coverage on television while ironing.

(What I hear right now, is not what I'd like to hear, but extremist right lost in favour of right wing parties that are a bit less extremist.)

Comments

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

I just checked my precinct: A meagre 20% voter turnout and the left is still going strong in this former working class area (28% Social Democrats, nearly 12% for the former communists). Only three people voted extreme right, as many as voted for the Pirate Party. The conservatives got 25%. The city overall is still being counted, but I expect the Christian Democrats to be the strongest party - similar to what is going on in the whole country.

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

The right, or should I call it Sarkozy's clique, got 28% which is the biggest result but the real winners of the election here are abstention (60%) and Daniel Cohn-Bendit. His list beat the socialist list in my area(Ile de France)and is right behind the PS in the whole country.

The group I voted for (Front de Gauche) is only 6,5 %, saddly just behind the extreme Right...

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

We had regional elections as well, so I still don't have the votes for the European Union.

For the Flemish parliament left (socialists, leftish liberals) lost in favour of Christian democrats and Flemish nationalist parties as well as right wing leftists.

For the Wallonian parliament it's Ecolo (the green party) that comes out as the big winner. Not the biggest party, but they went up with 10%. PS is probably still the biggest party in the Francophone part of Belgium, even though they were involved in a lot of scandals.

So the schism between Flanders and Wallonia is a schism between right and left right now.

I still have to find out about Brussels. Flemish television doesn't seem to be interested in it.

Probably the empty vote won, but those are for the biggest party anyway. Voter turnout is probably very high. It is compulsory after all. ;-)

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Err that should read: "Right wing liberals" and not leftists. Those are of a crazy sort...

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

And Ecolo has 10% more, not just 10%.

Really: read first before posting. *sighs*