After stumbling across the SOLE thread dedicated to fascism in Belgium and doing a tiny bit of reading on the subject I found out that a fascist Belgium seems somewhat likely.
Here are a few statistics and pieces of info which solidify this.
In the 1936 general election the Rexist party (a Catholic fascist party) gained 11.5% (or 23 out of 202 seats) in the Chamber of Representatives, as well as 10.9% (or 8 out of 101 seats) in the Senate. The Flemish fascist party VDV (Flemish National Union) gained 7.1% of the Chamber of Representatives vote (or 16 seats) and 7.0% in the Senate (5 seats). Combined these two fascist parties have 18.6%/18% of votes.
Now a small section coming from the German Wikipedia article about the Catholic Party (the key Belgian conservative party):
So how can we exactly achieve a fascist Belgium? The potential for a Catholic-Fascist alliance was considered after 1936, so how can it become a reality. Any Belgium experts out there who can help?
PS: Also Leopold III. had a repuation of being quite power-hungry (to some extent at least), so what may his part be? Could he "install" a Fascist government in the hope of expanding his powers and his beloved army?
Here are a few statistics and pieces of info which solidify this.
In the 1936 general election the Rexist party (a Catholic fascist party) gained 11.5% (or 23 out of 202 seats) in the Chamber of Representatives, as well as 10.9% (or 8 out of 101 seats) in the Senate. The Flemish fascist party VDV (Flemish National Union) gained 7.1% of the Chamber of Representatives vote (or 16 seats) and 7.0% in the Senate (5 seats). Combined these two fascist parties have 18.6%/18% of votes.
Now a small section coming from the German Wikipedia article about the Catholic Party (the key Belgian conservative party):
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katholische_Partei said:In 1921 the party changed its name to Catholic Union (Katholieke Unie / Union catholique) of Workers, Citizens, the Middle Class and Farmers. After Woeste's death in 1922 the party became less relevant and after the defeat at the polls of the 1936 general election it was renamed to Catholic Bloc (Katholieke Blok / Bloc catholique) and split into a French-speaking Parti catholique social and a Dutch-speaking Katholieke Vlaamse Volkspartij (KVV. The KVV approached the extreme right-wing fascist Vlaams Nationaal Verbond (VNV) in order to create a pooling of all Flemish and Catholic forces. This met the resistance of Flemish politicians like Frans Van Cauwelaert and Staf De Clercq, as well as the General Christian Employee Association and the Farmers Association. In the end the cooperation between the KKV and the VNV was prevented by Catholic bishops, which however did not exclude cooperation in local politics.
So how can we exactly achieve a fascist Belgium? The potential for a Catholic-Fascist alliance was considered after 1936, so how can it become a reality. Any Belgium experts out there who can help?
PS: Also Leopold III. had a repuation of being quite power-hungry (to some extent at least), so what may his part be? Could he "install" a Fascist government in the hope of expanding his powers and his beloved army?