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  1. Right on the money. Us Belgians live in a proverbial world of plenty, yet many of us (the voting populace) feel compelled to vote for an extremist rightwing party. The question begging for an answer: what for? Crime-rates? Crime-rates have gone down all over the country. Them Pesky Foreigners? Results show that the Vlaams Blok got an electoral boost in regions/towns that don’t have an immigration problem AT ALL. A protest vote against those big bad mainstream majority politicians? The last government did great work on our region’s deficit, did great work in education, in all, did good things with our money. I’m stumped by the election results, frankly…

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