BRUSSELS: Belgium voted yesterday in local elections seen as a potential make-or-break poll on the country’s future, with Flemish nationalist leader Bart De Wever seeking a big breakthrough.
De Wever, who has said he regards the central government in Belgium as illegitimate, hopes to win the mayor’s office in Antwerp, Europe’s second biggest port and Belgium’s economic heart, as a stepping stone to 2014 general elections.
The vote is the latest chapter in a tussle between Belgium’s Dutch- and French-speaking halves, and is being closely followed as the eurozone debt crisis tests loyalties in the European Union.
