The Belgium (Flemish) democracy is failing.

I myself am a really big fan of democracy, I believe it is one of the things that is right in the world. Let a majority of people decide how the country or part of a country should be run. But if we look at the Belgium democracy we see something totally different. And as we say in Belgium “het loopt de spuigaten uit”. Which means as much as “it is getting annoying”.

We have a extreme right party in Belgium which is getting the majority votes in some areas of Belgium with over 40% of the total votes. That is a lot in Belgium as we have so many parties that normally 30% is a lot. And in our system a lot of parties need to come together to actually become the majority. But in our little country all parties decide to not work with the extreme right.

They call it the “cordon sanitaire”. For me this is spitting on the public. No one asked us “the public” if we would mind the parties to collaborate with the extreme right. It is something they decided in the 1989’s and failed right after. And then around 1992 they reintroduced it.

I am all for principals. But if a party how big or small decides to ignore such a big part of there inhabitants I wonder the validity of that party. I myself don’t vote for extreme right. But I believe that no one should be ignoring any ones vote. We are all Belgiums (flemish) people in Vlaanderen.

A verse from the Limburg Anthem

Waar der Vaaderen schone taal klinkt met helder kracht. Waar men kloek en fier van aard, vreemde praal veracht. Eigen zeden, eigen schoon ’t hart des volks bekoort