New poll: MR linked in Brussels on a sigh of Ecolo
If parliamentary elections are organized in Belgium today, Ecolo will remain virtually the largest in Brussels (20.3%, -1.3 certainties with the elections in 2019, or together with Groen). But the MR is shrinking. The Liberal Party got 19.9 percent of the vote, an increase of 2.4 percentage points. This is apparent from a new poll by VTM Nieuws, RTL, Le Soir and Het Laatste Nieuws.
Third in the main PTB (16.4%, +4.1). Despite a stable result compared to the previous poll (15.1%, -4.9 certainty with the elections), the PS must therefore give priority to the PTB. Défi remains the fifth party in Brussels (10.8%, +0.5). Les Engagés, the movement known as CDH a few weeks ago, are falling below 5 percent (4.9%, -0.9).
The Dutch-speaking parties were also surveyed in Brussels, but the results are reliable because of the small size. N-VA would be the largest with 3.5%, Groen would be second with 3%, Vlaams Belang would be third with 2.3%. Open VLD scores 1.6% in the poll, Vooruit 1%, and CD&V is behind 0.2%. As mentioned, these scores should be taken with a grain of salt.
In Flanders, the landscape looks very different. There, N-VA would become the largest party with 23.4% (but within the margin of error). For the first time since the elections, the party jumps again over Vlaams Belang, which follows closely with 22.2%.
Open VLD below 10 percent
With the last elected N-VA 25.5 percent and Vlaams Belang 18.7 percent. Forward takes 14.2% of the best poll since the election, when the socialists stranded at 10.8%. CD&V moves too little at 11.3%. It’s worse than their election result (14.2%), but the 10% the party got in the June 2021 poll seems a bit further away.
That is not the case for Open VLD. The party that supplies the prime minister with Alexander De Croo, dives with 9.8% net below the symbolic limit of 10%. Green is the smallest party in this poll with 8.4%. Even opposition party PVDA, which would reach 8.9%, is slightly larger.
Alexander De Croo (Open VLD) has been re-released by the politician of Flanders. 54% of the plans want him to play an important role. In a September poll, it was still 61%. In second place is Vooruit chairman Conner Rousseau. N-VA chairman Bart De Wever now takes third place.