Country seeks government, still

Published on 18 October 2010 at 10:24

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"What now?" wonders the front page of Gazet van Antwerpen in its report on New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) leader Bart De Wever’s failed bid to establish a coalition between Flemish and Francophone parties. De Wever, who had been instructed by the king to make a last ditch attempt at forming a government, "will now have to return to the palace empty-handed." More than four months after general elections, Belgium is still without a government. "The ink on the compromise proposal barely had time to dry" before it was binned by the Francophone Socialist, Ecolo and Humanist Democratic Centre parties," writes the Antwerp daily. Another Belgian paper, De Standaard, believes that "new elections, which will make the situation even more desperate, are practically inevitable [...] Chaos looms."

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