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  • First what happend already this morning: - King accepts PM's resignation
    The Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt (Flemish liberal) this morning tendered his resignation to King Albert. The King has accepted the Prime Minister's resignation.

  • In the coming hours the Belgian monarch will be meeting a host of other top Belgian politicians.

  • The talks should lead to the appointment of an "informateur", a politician who can sound out the parties and suggest who is best placed to form Belgium's next coalition government.

  • The Flemish centrist alliance of Christian democrats and nationalists is now the largest political force in the country.

  • A Christian democrat/liberal coalition is now seen as the most likely outcome of coalition formation talks.

  • If Mr Leterme wants to press ahead with state reforms a government with a two-thirds majority is required. This could only be supplied by a Christian democrat/liberal/socialist coalition.


The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)
by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Mon Jun 11th, 2007 at 07:36:47 AM EST
thank you...and great job on this!!

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia
by whataboutbob on Mon Jun 11th, 2007 at 09:10:19 AM EST
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