Will you vote for the european election (2004)?

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will you vote for the european elections - 2004?

Yes
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86%
No
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14%
 
Total votes: 63

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groentje
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Post by groentje »

Thank you, Germany. :wink:
Nonetheless, I wasn't pleased at all with the result yersterday. Extreme right becomes the second largest party in Flanders, for the European as well as for the regional elections. They had more than 22% of the votes...
:evil:
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Post by Ernst »

groentje wrote:Thank you, Germany. :wink:
Nonetheless, I wasn't pleased at all with the result yersterday. Extreme right becomes the second largest party in Flanders, for the European as well as for the regional elections. They had more than 22% of the votes...
:evil:
Yes, that's really bad. luckily in Germany the two right wing extremist parties did not get more than 1% :lol:.
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Post by Elmo »

groentje wrote:Thank you, Germany. :wink:
Nonetheless, I wasn't pleased at all with the result yersterday. Extreme right becomes the second largest party in Flanders, for the European as well as for the regional elections. They had more than 22% of the votes...
:evil:
Then the Vlaams Blok (the party mentioned here) should come into the
government. You might think: "Are you out of your f*cking mind?! 8O :evil: ", but
when they are in the government you will see that they are just a populist
party which is very incompetent. Look at Austria: The ÖVP (christian-demo-
crates) made a coalition with FPÖ (Jörg Haider), despite many protests. But a
few years later they showed that they were incometent heaps of sh*t, so at
the next elections they lost about 75% of their votes!

Another option might be to start a decent Belgian right-wing party: at the
moment the rightest parties besides VB - the liberals and the christian-
democrates - are now middle-left! So there isn't any alternative for right-
wing people besides the Vlaams Blok, so that is also part of the VB's
success. If I lived in Flanders I would seriously consider to vote the VB,
since I would be obliged to vote there! Definitely!
When Pim Fortuyn started his own party in the Netherlands our extreme-
right-wing parties lost ALL their votes! And thanks to him we can freely
discuss about the multicultural society AND the extreme-right-wing parties
in the Netherlands have been annihilated!

So two things should happen:
1. Stop the cordon sanitaire (not negotiating at all with the VB about a
government) and let the VB join the government.
2. Start a decent right-wing party (like Pim Fortuyn did two years ago).

That is the only way to beat extreme-right!
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are 'It might have been.' - Kurt Vonnegut
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