Who are the biggest winners and losers in the 2024 municipal elections?

Who are the biggest winners and losers in the 2024 municipal elections?
Who are the biggest winners and losers in the 2024 municipal elections?

With a touch of subjectivity, the editorial staff of “Soir” attempted to establish the ranking of the best performances and the most beautiful misses of Sunday’s vote.


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By Julien Bialas, Xavier Counasse

Published on 10/14/2024 at 7:19 p.m.
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IThey were all candidates, Sunday, in the municipal election. They are Flemish, Brussels or Walloon.

The winners

They shone through their score or their political flair. Let’s go back to the top 10 of the most notable performances.

We call it getting in jail. And even a monumental prison. While Défi has been running the commune of Schaerbeek for 24 years, Bernard Clerfayt wanted to keep the mayoral sash. The one who still serves as Brussels Minister of Local Authorities (in current affairs), experienced, on these lands, a complicated mandate which saw him lose his majority along the way. The game therefore promised to be close. She was. But the mayor’s list was never in the mix. She lost almost 20 percentage points and finished fifth. For Bernard Clerfayt, more than a defeat, it is also a personal slap in the face. He lost more than 5,000 votes, going from 7,927 votes to 2,617.



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