The Walloon Rally (French: Rassemblement wallon; RW) is a regionalist[1] political party in Belgium, active in Wallonia since 1968. The party favoured federalism and since 1985 independence.
Founded on 7 March 1968, the party contested the Belgian general election of 1968 in a coalition with the FDF, a Brussels-based francophone political party, receiving 5.9% of the vote nationally. The party's own results in elections to the Belgian Federal Parliament were as follows.
Election
1968
1971
1974
1977
1978
1981
Percentage of national vote
3.35
6.69
5.86
2.96
2.86
1.71
Seats
5
14
13
5
4
2
The increasing federalisation of Belgium, and the adoption of some of the party's policies by the traditional francophone parties, resulted in a sharp decline in electoral support from 1977 onwards. A split in the early 1980s created the Walloon Popular Rally, a more left-wing grouping, which later merged with the Socialist Party. The Wallonia-France Rally, which supports the union of Wallonia and France, was formed by the rump of the party's membership in 1999. Afterwards, the Walloon Rally left the WFR and formed Union For Wallonia with the France Party, Wallonia Social Democracy, Get Up Wallonia and the Brussels' Walloons.
In 2010, Union For Wallonia, which took part in June federal elections under the name W+, was renamed Walloon Rally, which was its largest component.
^Peter Starke; Alexandra Kaasch; Franca Van Hooren (7 May 2013). The Welfare State as Crisis Manager: Explaining the Diversity of Policy Responses to Economic Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 192–. ISBN 978-1-137-31484-0.
The WalloonRally (French: Rassemblement wallon; RW) is a regionalist political party in Belgium, active in Wallonia since 1968. The party favoured federalism...
associated with a faction of the Walloon Movement and is advocated by the political parties WalloonRally and Wallonia–France Rally. Neither presently have any...
example the Walloon Democratic and Socialist Rally (Rassemblement démocratique et socialiste wallon) created during World War II. Many Walloon militants...
parties. A partial agreement is reached in Steenokkerzeel. For the WalloonRally as long as there is no agreement on everything, there is no agreement...
on the Flemish side and the Democratic Front of the Francophones and WalloonRally on the French-speaking side. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections...
Brussels-Capital Region) People: Walloons Proposed state: Unification with France Political parties: WalloonRally, Rassemblement Wallonie France Secessionist...
Party 480,380 7.97 24 +9 Social Christian Party 390,896 6.49 18 –7 FDF–WalloonRally 253,720 4.21 8 –3 Democratic Union for the Respect of Labour 163,727...
09 0 New Socialist Workers' Party 5,243 0.09 0 0 VD 4,467 0.07 0 New WalloonRally 3,756 0.06 0 0 VCD–PCS 2,941 0.05 0 New Democratic Union for the Respect...
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Christian Social Party 445,912 21.24 3 Democratic Front of Francophones–WalloonRally 414,603 19.75 2 Liberal Reformist Party 372,904 17.76 2 Ecolo 107,833...
Total 151,444 2.72 2 0 PSC–CSP 138,361 2.48 0 New WalloonRally 132,773 2.38 4 –7 PSB–WalloonRally 33,598 0.60 1 New All Power to the Workers AMADA (Flanders)...
provinces of Wallonia, Hainaut (18), Liège (15), Luxembourg (4), Namur (6) and Walloon Brabant (5), form the French-speaking language group. The 15 members elected...
Party of German-speaking Belgians 11,148 0.20 0 0 Walloon Liberal Party 11,081 0.20 0 New WalloonRally (Luxembourg) 6,659 0.12 0 New Revolutionary Workers'...
Regional Council from 1981 to 1985, and a founder and member of the WalloonRally. Boniface was born on 20 December 1911 in Mons. She graduated from the...
the Freedom and Progress Party and the WalloonRally (a party of Belgium's French-speaking citizens). The Walloon MPs had abstained from a vote to approve...
of Belgium 45,218 0.74 0 0 Socialist Workers' Party 31,446 0.51 0 0 WalloonRally 12,391 0.20 0 New National Front 7,596 0.12 0 0 Democratic Union for...
National-Collectivist Party, Rassemblement Wallonie France and the regionalist WalloonRally. The French version of republicanism after 1870 was called "Radicalism";...
Christian Social Party 327,393 6.20 15 New WalloonRally 306,606 5.81 12 +6 PSC–CVP 292,101 5.53 12 −57 FDF–WalloonRally 286,639 5.43 12 New Communist Party...
Christian Social Party 478,209 9.09 22 +7 FDF–PDLP 301,303 5.73 14 New WalloonRally 269,455 5.12 11 −1 Communist Party of Belgium 107,481 2.04 2 New BSP–Red...
formed the ⇒ Liberal Party 1976: The PLP merged with a faction of the WalloonRally (Rassemblement Wallon) into the Party for Reforms and Freedom of Wallonia...
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