An extreme-right party in Belgium increased its parliamentary representation as a result of elections Sunday. The Flemish Bloc, widely branded as racist and fascist, won 9.8 percent of the vote, up from the 7.8 percent it won in a 1995 vote for the legislature. In separate regional voting, the party also won several seats in the provincial legislature of Flanders.
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