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BELGIUM - July 2000 BLOC WALLON: OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES Right-wing extremists have set up a new political party in the Walloons, the mainly French-speaking region of Belgium. The new organisation is called Bloc Wallon (BW) and based in Liège. It may be a new organisation with a new name but there are fewnew faces in this party, most of whose members share a militant past in the various extreme right-wing parties that have seen the light of day over the last fifteen years in Brussels and the Walloons. These parties include the Front National‚ (FN), Front Nouveau de Belgique, Référendum‚ Agir‚ and numerous extremist splinter groups. The leader of the Bloc Wallon is Georges Hupin, well-known to Belgian anti-fascists as a disciple of "New Right" ideology and as president of two rather obscure Belgian "New Right" organisations: Les Amis de la Renaissance Européenne‚ and Fraternité Nature-Jardins. Until December last year, Hupin headed the Front National’s branch in the Hainaut district. Like many others, he quit after a bust-up with the FN’s president, Daniel Féret. Bloc Wallon aims to take part in next October’s local and district council elections. The new party plans to contest every district in the Walloons while, in the Brussels region, it will work together with another new, local far-right party named Bloc Nationaliste Francophone‚ founded in January this year by Juan Lemmens and Emile Eloy who are former Front National MPs. The creation of the Bloc Wallon is a desperate attempt by the far-right in the Walloons to save face and, at least some of its council seats, in the bigger cities like Liège, Namur and Charleroi, after right-wing extremists – except those belonging to the Vlaams Blok – were wiped out in last year’s parliamentary and regional councils elections.
From Wim Haelsterman of AFF - Verzet / Résistances in Brussels.
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