Quote Originally Posted by Kralizec

I suppose the problem could be adressed by removing the language division in federal elections, so that all Belgians vote for the same parties. Doesn't seem likely to happen...
The Walloons often ask for this, but it is much protested by the Flemsih because although we are the minority it's our 'culture' that apparently needs protecting (living near the language border, I somewhat agree with the reasoning).

The other way would be to "deflate" Flemish votes by abandoning the proportional system,
We don't have a true proportional system, seats are assigned per 'province' so that the french speaking parts gets 40 and the Dutch speaking part 60 percent of the 'chairs' (not quite sure about the senate, i assume it's equally proportioanl) sometimes this can change a little because of brussels but I think we now have a perfect 60/40 split between Flemish and walloon parties.

and give both Flanders and Wallony an equal amount of seats in parliament to be distributed according to votes.
That seems unfair, and even less likely to happen.

Yeah, never going to happen, that would give their vote nearly twice as much power as ours.