The Walloon Rally ( French : Rassemblement wallon ; RW ) is a regionalist political party in Belgium , active in Wallonia since 1968. The party favoured federalism and since 1985 independence.
4-600: Founded on 7 March 1968, the party contested the Belgian general election of 1968 in a coalition with the FDF , a Brussels -based francophone political party, receiving 5.9% of the vote nationally. The party's own results in elections to the Belgian Federal Parliament were as follows. The increasing federalisation of Belgium, and the adoption of some of the party's policies by the traditional francophone parties, resulted in
8-631: A sharp decline in electoral support from 1977 onwards. A split in the early 1980s created the Walloon Popular Rally , a more left-wing grouping, which later merged with the Socialist Party . The Wallonia-France Rally , which supports the union of Wallonia and France , was formed by the rump of the party's membership in 1999. Afterwards, the Walloon Rally left the WFR and formed Union For Wallonia with
12-783: The France Party, Wallonia Social Democracy, Get Up Wallonia and the Brussels' Walloons. In 2010, Union For Wallonia, which took part in June federal elections under the name W+ , was renamed Walloon Rally , which was its largest component. This article about a Belgian political party is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 1968 Belgian general election Vanden Boeynants I CVP/PSC - PVV/PLP G. Eyskens V CVP/PSC - BSP/PSB General elections were held in Belgium on 31 March 1968. The Christian Social Party remained
16-546: The largest party. Voter turnout was 90.0%. Elections for the nine provincial councils were also held. The snap elections were called after the government, a coalition of the Christian Social Party and the liberal Party for Freedom and Progress led by Christian Democrat Paul Vanden Boeynants , fell due to the Leuven Crisis . The linguistic crisis would trigger the split of the dominant Christian Social Party into
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