Belgian Elections Heavy Defeat. Says Socialist

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Analysing the results of the recent general election in Belgium, Ernest Mandel, editor of La Gauche, describes them as “the heaviest defeat in the history of Belgian Socialism." The Socialist Party lost 470,000 votes and 20 seats in parliament's lower house. % of these votes went to the right, the remainder swinging left to either the Communist Party, the new left socialist party, or followers of Jacques Grippa, the pro-Chinese Commmist, The new socialist party scored two notable victories in secur= ing the election of Pierre le Greve in Brussels, and Francois Perrin in Liege. Its vote was the one encouraging sign im an otherwise bleak picture. At Namur it failed by a mere thousand votes to win a seat. The vote of the hard left, including the C.P., doubled to reach 6%. The overall result is a sign of the penalties Spaak's regime has brought on itself by its right wing evolutions