Despite on-going coalition negotiations, regionalist parties remain the clear winners of the 2014 Belgian elections

Belgium held federal, regional and European elections in May, with parties currently involved in negotiations over the formation of a new government. Régis Dandoy writes on the electoral results of the country’s regionalist parties. He notes that while much of the attention has tended to focus on the success of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) in Flanders, every region in Belgium witnessed the presence of at least one regionalist party. He argues that when these parties’ results are taken together, it is clear that regionalist parties were the clear winners of the elections overall.