Brussels voters will be able to vote for Dutch-speaking candidates in all communes on 13 October, although they often have to search for them on lists primarily composed of French-speaking candidates.
Only Brussels Region Minister Sven Gatz (Open VLD) has managed to top a bilingual list (MR-VLD in Jette). Meanwhile, the N-VA (9 communes), Vlaams Belang (3), and Vooruit (1) will present their candidates under their own names in various communes. Groen is running everywhere with Ecolo.
CD&V will field 33 candidates in 16 out of the 19 communes, mainly on local lists (such as the Mayor’s List), often alongside Les Engagés and MR. In Evere, they will join the Mayor’s List led by PS Ridouane Chahid, and in Schaerbeek, with Ecolo-Groen.
Vooruit.brussels features in 77 candidates across fifteen communes, often in collaboration with their sister party PS, sometimes with local candidates, or on the Mayor’s List. However, in Schaerbeek, the party is presenting its own list: Vooruit+. Flemish liberal Open VLD have nearly 50 candidates in 12 communes.
N-VA is present in 9 out of the 19 communes with its own list: City of Brussels, Schaerbeek, Ganshoren, Koekelberg, Anderlecht, Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Uccle, Molenbeek, and Jette.
Vlaams Belang is fielding candidates in three communes: City of Brussels, Evere, and Jette.
Team Fouad Ahidar, the surprise of the last Brussels regional elections with three Dutch-speaking seats, has submitted lists in seven communes: Molenbeek, Anderlecht, Schaerbeek, Jette, Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, and Woluwe-Saint-Pierre.
Fouad Ahidar, elected in the Dutch-speaking group of the Brussels Parliament, tops the list in Jette. Ahidar’s lists include several former councillors, some of whom have defected from other parties, and numerous French-speaking candidates.
