Belgium Political Crisis Continues
(N Z P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) BRUSSELS, July 2. Efforts to end Belgium’s six-week political crisis centred today on the revival of the two-party coalition, which resigned after the May General Elections. The new move by Mr Pierre Harmel, the Social Christian Party leader, requested by King Baudouin two weeks ago with the task of forming a Government, follows the breakdown yesterday of his attempt to form a three-party National Union Government. The old coalition of Social Christians and Socialists resigned when it failed to win sufficient electoral support for constitutional reforms aimed at ending rivalry between Belgium’s French and Flem-
t ish-speaking communities. The Liberty and Progress Party, the main victor at the elections, disagrees with the proposals, which would allow greater cultural and administrative’ autonomy for the two communities. It calls the reforms “federalist.” and yesterday denounced a National Union Government as undemocratic.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30793, 3 July 1965, Page 15
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147Belgium Political Crisis Continues Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30793, 3 July 1965, Page 15
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