Workers' Party of Belgium triples number of municipal councillors to 15

Ten reasons can be given why people may have voted for WPB+ candidates:

1. A credible and realistic programme – e.g. a campaign for cheaper medicines that received 100,000 signatures and led to concrete price-lowering measures by the Ministry of Health
2. Going all the way in confronting particular issues, and doing this by listening to and working with the people – e.g. obtaining the elimination of an unjust tax on households
3. All-out action against increasingly expensive living conditions – e.g. fighting for cheaper electricity for households
4. Fighting for better health – e.g. by preventing public hospitals from being privatised; e.g. by defending the workers’ health against unsafe and unhealth working conditions
5. Concern for the environment – e.g. against the air and ground pollution caused by major companies
6. Blocking the extreme Rightist ‘Vlaams Belang’
7. Unity and solidarity, across language divides – The WPB is the only remaining national Belgian party, without being divided in a Flemish and French-speaking party.
8. A genuine workers’ party – Among the WPB+ candidates, you will find a lot of workers and trade unionists. WPB members are very active in the trade union movement, and supported the trade unions’ struggle against the government measures to keep older workers longer years at work, while maintaining a high level of unemployment among the youth.
9. Candidates ‘with and for the people’ – instead of candidates ‘with and for money’
10. Small is no longer beautiful – The WPB has long been considered ‘the biggest party of the small ones’. Now it aims to become ‘the smallest party of the big ones’ and to be taken into account as a serious force for societal change.