Committee for Another Policy
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Founded | 2005 |
Ideology | Socialism |
Colours | Red |
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The Committee for Another Policy (Dutch: Comité voor een Andere Politiek, French: Comité pour une Autre Politique), abbreviated to CAP, was a Belgian left-wing political movement that was established in 2005, and became a political party in 2006.[1]
The initiators of the committee are the Belgian politicians Jef Sleeckx (former SP.A-MP), Lode Van Outrive (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.
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.
Chamber of Representatives | ||||||
Election year | # of overall votes | % of overall vote | % of language group vote |
# of overall seats won | # of language group seats won |
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2007 | 20,083 | 0.30 | 0 / 150
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Senate | ||||||
Election year | # of overall votes | % of overall vote | % of language group vote |
# of overall seats won | # of language group seats won |
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2007 | 21,215 | 0.32 | 0 / 40
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2010 | 6,254 | 0.10 | 0 / 40
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