Early Results Show Belgian Coalition Losing
Times Wire Services
BRUSSELS —
The center-left government of Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene lost Sunday’s general elections in Belgium, preliminary results showed.
With 86% of the vote counted, the coalition was set to lose 16 seats of its 82-seat majority. This loss would take it to 66 seats, well below half of the mandates in the 150-seat federal Parliament.
The coalition was punished for its handling of a food contamination scandal, in which Myanmar has become the latest country to impose a ban on European meat and dairy products.
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