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EU aid commissioner Louis Michel's party lost Belgian elections. (Photo: EUobserver)

Belgium votes for new leader

Belgium will get a new prime minister after the conservatives – led by the Christian Democrats – defeated the socialist-liberal coalition in a move that will see the end of Guy Verhofstadt's eight-year term in office.

Yves Leterme looks set to be the next prime minister of Belgium after his Flemish Christian Democrats CD&V and New Flemish Alliance N-VA emerged as the largest political formation with 29.6 percent of the vote cast on Sunday (10 June).

Mr Leterme - born of Walloon an...

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EU aid commissioner Louis Michel's party lost Belgian elections. (Photo: EUobserver)

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