While I don't agree with some of the analyses in the article, it's the first decent english link I could find.
Biggest losers were flemish christian democrats, extreme right and flemish/walloon liberals while there was a historic victory for flemish nationalists in the north and walloon socialists in the south. Lets hope that opposites attract because the flemish voter gave a strong signal that things need to change after 3 years of immobilism.Belgium's Flemish separatists make big election gains
Belgium's Flemish separatist party, the New Flemish Alliance (NVA), has emerged as the largest force in parliament, near-complete election results show.
The NVA took 27 seats in the 150-member assembly, bringing the country closer to a split.
The party, led by Bart De Wever, wants to more fully divide the country between Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia.
But the NVA would have to form a coalition with Wallonian parties.
Some analysts believe the next government will take in as many as eight parties, the BBC's Dominic Hughes in Brussels reports.
Such a coalition might force NVA Mr De Wever to tone down his Flemish nationalist rhetoric.
"The NVA has won the election today," he told his supporters after Sunday's poll, in which his party increased its representation in the lower house of parliament by 19 seats.
The French-speaking Socialists are expected to gain six seats for a total of 26.
The result would be a significant loss for Premier Yves Leterme's coalition of Christian Democrats, Liberals and Socialists.
His government collapsed in April over a long-standing dispute about voting rights for Dutch-speakers around Brussels and the election was brought forward by one year.
Separate lives
A split bringing an end to Belgium would not happen immediately.
Belgian governments are required to be made up of a bi-lingual coalition of at least four parties.
Much of public and political life in Belgium is dominated by bitter debates around language and the allocation of public resources.
Government aid to poorer Wallonia, home to four million French speakers, has caused resentment among Belgium's 6.5 million Flemish majority, correspondents say.
Until now separatist parties have been on the fringes of political debate.
But Mr De Wever, 39, has pushed his party into the mainstream over the last three years while the other parties have been locked in a political stalemate.
The country also faces economic problems, and some analysts say that Belgium can not afford a long period of uncertainty.
During the last three years the national debt has grown to unmanageable proportions.
The country's ratio of debt to gross domestic product is behind only Greece and Italy in the Eurozone, analysts say.
Belgium is also taking on the six-month presidency in the European Union in July.
Normally the EU presidency gives a country a higher international profile. But it may have come along at just the wrong time for Belgium if coalition talks drag on, our correspondent says.
