At Vlaams Belang’s party gathering, the results clearly disappointed crowd, which fell largely silent after the first official count came in after 6 p.m. The first speeches, which had been planned for around 7 p.m., were postponed.
“We had the ambition to become the biggest party in the whole of Flanders. We didn’t succeed in that,” Vlaams Belang leader Tom Van Grieken later told his supporters.
In the southern part of the country, Wallonia, voters also inched to the right, with the French-speaking liberal Reformist Movement (MR) projected to become the biggest party with about 32 percent of the Francophone vote. The centrist Les Engagés finished second, based on preliminary results from around 8 p.m. The results were a shock to the center-left Socialist Party (PS), which has led the region for decades.
“These are election results that show a willingness for change and reform,” said the 38-year-old MR party president Georges-Louis Bouchez in his speech to party militants Sunday evening.
Belgian leader Alexander De Croo said Sunday evening he would offer the resignation of his government to the Belgian king on Monday, after his center-right party saw its vote share plummet in Sunday’s national election.
“For us it was a particularly difficult evening, we lost,” an emotional De Croo told his supporters at a rally.
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