Committee for Another Policy
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Formation
The initiators of the committee are the Belgian politicians Template:Ill (former SP.A-MP), Template:Ill (former MEP for the SP.A, and former ABVV) and ETUC chairman Georges Debunne.[2] All three have been active in the Belgian socialist movement for several decades.
On 28 October 2006, a foundation congress took place at the ULB in Brussels. Various existing left-wing groups, like the LSP, the KP and the SAP, committed their support to the idea of a new broad left-wing political formation.
Elections in 2007
At a second congress, held on 3 February 2007, it was decided by a great majority of the participants to take part in the Belgian federal elections of 10 June 2007. The CAP participated with 239 candidates in these elections and got 0.4% of the vote for both the Chamber of People's Representatives and the Senate.
Election results
Federal Parliament
| Chamber of Representatives | ||||||
| Election year | # of overall votes | % of overall vote | % of language group vote |
# of overall seats won | # of language group seats won |
+/- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 20,083 | 0.30 | Template:Composition bar | |||
| Senate | ||||||
| Election year | # of overall votes | % of overall vote | % of language group vote |
# of overall seats won | # of language group seats won |
+/- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 21,215 | 0.32 | Template:Composition bar | |||
| 2010 | 6,254 | 0.10 | Template:Composition bar | Steady 0 | ||
References
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