Committee for Another Policy

Committee for Another Policy
  • Comité voor een Andere Politiek
  • Comité pour une Autre Politique
Founded2005 (2005)
IdeologySocialism
ColoursRed
Website

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]

Formation

The initiators of the committee are the Belgian politicians Jef Sleeckx [nl] (former SP.A-MP), Lode Van Outrive [nl] (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
0 / 150
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
0 / 40
2010 6,254 0.10
0 / 40
 Steady 0

References

  1. ^ "Toelichting door Jef Sleeckx van het verzoekschrift Debunne Sleeckx Van Outrive op 8 november 2005 op de Commissie buitenland van het Vlaams Parlement" (PDF) (in Dutch). 2006-12-01. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-12-01. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
  2. ^ "Jef Sleeckx vindt de tijd rijp voor een andere politiek. / Interviews / Politics.be - Jouw politieke portaalsite". Politics.be. Retrieved 2022-12-28.