Belgian general election, 2007
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The next Belgian general election is scheduled to take place on Sunday June 10, 2007. Voters will go the polls in order to elect new members for the Chamber of Representatives and Senate.
Eligible voters are Belgian citizens older than 18 years. There is a threshold of 5% for political parties to meet. The members (150) of the Chamber of Representatives will be elected in 11 electoral districts. Senators (40) will be elected in the Dutch (25) and Francophone (15) electoral colleges.
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[edit] Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde
With the federal elections looming, the problem of the electoral district of Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde reemerged. Because the federal government failed to comply with a ruling of the Court of Arbitration which declared the provincial electoral districts compared to the two remaining arrondisemental ones in the former province of Brabant unconstitutional, several mayor's in the Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde area have threatened to refuse to compile the lists of electors.
Professor en constitutional expert Paul Van Orshoven from the KUL declared that the elections, to be held on June 10, are unconstitutional. According to Van Orshoven there are two problems:
- As the previous election was held Sunday May 18, 2003, the final date to hold elections (four years from the previous) is Sunday, May 13, 2007
- The Court of Arbitration gave the government the time to fix the B-H-V problem until the next elections should been sheduled, after that election results could be declared void.
[edit] Polls
[edit] Flemish region
[edit] Het Laatste Nieuws
The polls conducted by the Stemmenkampioen site of Het Laatste Nieuws and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel[1], yield the following overall result for Flanders, compared to the 2003 Senate elections (the last column displays the difference between the latest polls and that result):
| Party/Alliance | 05/2003 (%) | 01/2007 (%) | diff '03 (%) |
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| CD&V - N-VA | 25 | 30 | +5 |
| Vlaams Belang | 17 | 20 | +3 |
| SP.a - SPIRIT | 25 | 17 | -8 |
| VLD - Vivant | 24 | 15 | -9 |
| Groen! | 3 | 5 | +2 |
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