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Elio Di Rupo (c) - being in government is not making his party more popular (Photo: fotospresidencia5)

Belgian PM feels the heat from left

In Belgium the EU elections take place on the same day as the national and regional elections - a day that won't be a picnic for Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo.

His socialist party (PS) is doing badly in opinion polls. The leftist Workers' Party of Belgium (PTB), by contrast, could for the first time succeed in passing the 5 percent threshold.

The PS has for many decades been by far the biggest party in Wallonia, the southern French-speaking part of Belgium.

But in recent year...

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Elio Di Rupo (c) - being in government is not making his party more popular (Photo: fotospresidencia5)

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