Go Antwerp, Go!

Yesterday was Election day in Belgium; 318 municipal governments were elected, along with 5 provincial governments (of whom nobody really knows what they do) and in some large cities (such as Antwerp, where I live) also district governments.

One secret hope I had was that the extreme-right Vlaams Belang party would not get any more successful than they already are. The good news is that they in fact didn't. The bad news is that they didn't lose any votes either. They gained .6% (or so) on the 33% that they already had, which basically is a stagnation.

The very good news, however, is that Patrick Janssens, defending mayor of Antwerp, gained a good 16% in votes to arrive at 35%, becoming the largest party of Antwerp. Finally, sanity is beginning to return.

Go Antwerp, Go!