The party of the current President of the Government of Belgium received less than 7% of the votes, lagging far behind the far left.
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croe has announced that he will resign after losing the country’s general election. Le Soir and The Washington Post reported this on Sunday, June 9.
It was noted that, despite the defeat, Alexander de Cros congratulated the winners of the election, the conservative N-VA party, which follows the ideology of Flemish nationalism.
“This is a particularly difficult night for us, we lost from tomorrow will be a retired prime minister but the Liberals are strong, we will be back,” said the prime minister.
According to exit polls, the Open Party got 5.7%, which is 2.8 percentage points lower than in 2019.
The president of the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats party, Tom Ongen, has also announced his intention to resign.
De Croe will remain as caretaker prime minister until a new government is formed.
The European People’s Party (EPP), according to preliminary exit polls, won the European Parliament elections, the last day of which is Sunday, June 9. According to forecasts, the pro-Ukrainian European People’s Party will have the tenth largest faction meeting of the European Parliament.
In the elections to the European Parliament in Slovakia, according to preliminary unofficial data, the opposition party Progressive Slovakia is in the lead, and the pro-government SMER of the current Prime Minister Robert Fico is in second place.
New Correspondent.net on Telegram and WhatsApp. Subscribe to our channels Athletistic and WhatsApp
Source: korrespondent
I am David Wyatt, a professional writer and journalist for Buna Times. I specialize in the world section of news coverage, where I bring to light stories and issues that affect us globally. As a graduate of Journalism, I have always had the passion to spread knowledge through writing.