“Votes for the Vlaams Belang are lost votes” says N-VA lawmaker | VRT NWS: news

Next year is election year. Federal and Flemish coalition governments will have to be formed because no single party is expected to win a majority. Last time round Belgium’s biggest party, the Flemish nationalist N-VA, spoke with the far right Vlaams Belang, but in the event a more centrist coalition was formed. What hand will voters deal to politicians next time round? Nobody knows, but on Tuesday night N-VA lawmaker Theo Francken went on the record telling Vlaams Belang Euro MP Tom Vandendries