Quote Originally Posted by Moros
It's worse we have six. Sigh.
Flanders.
French community
German Community
Wallony
Brussels
Federal Government
Why, naturally. How else to rule the vast area of Belgium, 20% larger than Vermont, than through a triple federalised system? And you've got your provincial, local and European elections too. Please tell me voting is obligatory for all of them.

And then there's the Bruxelles-Hal-Vilvorde arrondissement problem, which, by verdict of the Belgian constitutional court, in fact renders the current election unconstitutional.

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Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde (often abbreviated as BHV) is a contentious Belgian electoral arrondissement in the center of the country that encompasses both the officially bilingual Brussels-Capital Region, which coincides with the administrative arrondissement of Brussels-Capital, as well as the officially unilingual Dutch-speaking area around it, Halle-Vilvoorde, which in turn forms a separate administrative arrondissement. Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde is also a judicial arrondissement, unambiguously better known as the Brussels judicial Arrondissement after the location of its courts.

With the federal elections of 10 June 2007 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 and constitutional expert Paul Van Orshoven from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 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.


Anyone knows if you can vote for Leterme's goat?
Yves 'les francophones ne sont pas en état intellectuel d'apprendre le néerlandais' Leterme? What about his goat?
Please tell me he was caught doing you-know-what with his goat!?