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List Dedecker (Dutch:
[edit] PlatformTheir economic program is based on free market economics, a pro-business and free enterprise attitude, a limited but efficient government, a flat tax system, the reform of unemployment benefits and social security schemes, the fight against waste and corruption, and the reduction of regulation and bureaucracy. Furthermore, List Dedecker stands for the introduction of a binding referendum, the abolition of barriers for new political parties in Belgium and a tougher approach towards crime. The party also strives for a more independent Flanders. LDD is widely considered to be liberal on social issues, in spite of having a strong traditional conservative wing as well. At the European level, the party allied itself with moderate Eurosceptics such as the British Conservatives, the Czech Civic Democrats and the Polish Law and Justice Party, and sits on the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament. LDD claims to be Euro-realist and EU-reformist, and rejects all sorts of extreme anti-European sentiments. Rumors stated that LDD initially tried to align themselves with the European Liberals, Democrats and Reformists and with Declan Ganley's pan-European movement Libertas. List Dedecker also opposes the cordon sanitaire that is used to keep the hard-right Flemish Interest Party from power, claiming that it is unsuccessful and undemocratic. Some critics argue, however, that the electoral success of LDD may hamper further growth of Vlaams Belang by virtue of attracting rightist or protest votes that otherwise would have gone to Vlaams Belang. At a given point in 2008, LDD was also looking for a political joint venture in Wallonia with liberal economist Rudy Aernoudt as their partner in this endeavour. [edit] MembersIn early 2007, a part of the VLOTT party, the liberal-conservative cartel partner of Vlaams Belang, joined the ranks of List Dedecker, which is still run by its founder and president Jean-Marie Dedecker who is also the party's most renowned member. LDD claims to be one of the most well-connected political parties with small businesses and the private sector in Flanders. Important members of List Dedecker are Boudewijn Bouckaert, who used to head the libertarian think tank Nova Civitas and is now in charge of the Cassandra think tank, Patricia De Waele, a former chairperson of the Liberal Women Association, Monique Denhaen, the former spokeswoman of car owner lobby Touring, Derk Jan Eppink, a Dutch right-wing libertarian columnist for the current affairs magazines Knack and Trends, and Marten Fortuyn, the brother of slain Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn. Back in 2007, sitting parliamentarians Jurgen Verstrepen and Monique Moens from Vlaams Belang, Gino De Craemer and John Vrancken from N-VA and Mimount Bousakla from SP.A defected to LDD, leading in April 2007 to the de facto existence of a new political group in the Flemish Parliament. Former Liberal-Democrat MP Stef Goris also crossed the floor to List Dedecker after failing to secure re-election in the 2007 Belgian general election. He didn't get a seat for List Dedecker in the 2009 elections for the Flemish Parliament neither. Many local politicians from various political parties, even including some city mayors such as Paul Vanhie, a whole bunch of celebrities such as beauty pageant winner Anne De Batselier, radio talkshow host Jurgen Verstrepen, judo legend Ulla Werbrouck and soap opera actor Karel Deruwe, and quite a few business owners and academics, notably Ivan Sabbe and Rudi De Kerpel and economics professor Lode Vereeck, also decided to join List Dedecker, transforming LDD into the very first newly emerged sustainable political party in Belgium since the 1970s. The last federal elections were disappointig for the party. Several regional factions such as LDD Mechelen and Lier left the party due to a lack of internal democracy. Several local politicians provincial deputies were discontent and also left the party. Beauty pageant winner Anne De Batselier and soap opera actor Karel Deruwe did not get elected for the Flemish Parliament despite their celebrity factor. [edit] ElectionsThe 2007 general election was the first ever election contested by List Dedecker. They met the 5% threshold for parliamentary representation, in spite of all pre-election polls dismissing the chances for the party. Analyses in the aftermath of the election showing that List Dedecker was able to attract voters from across the political spectrum and from all political parties, led up to vicious attacks and groundless accusations of populism against the party. In the 2007 general election, the party won 5 seats in the Chamber of Representatives and 1 seat in the Senate. In the 2009 Flemish and European elections, List Dedecker won a disappointing 8 seats in the Flemish Parliament and 1 seat in the European Parliament despite pre-election polls that had indicated a big share of the votes for List Dedecker. [edit] Representation[edit] Federal Parliament[edit] Senate
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