The city has been run by socialist politicians for decades and Bart de Wever told the crowds he had never expected to do so well there. The NVA has long argued that the Dutch-speaking part of the Belgium - Flanders has spent too much money subsidizing Wallonia, the poorer French-speaking region in the south. He believes his party's success at a local level will now help him build a platform to take on the country socialist Prime Minister Elio di Rupo in the country's next national elections in 2014.

该市几十年来都在社会党政客治理之下，巴特·德·魏夫告诉众人，他从未想到结果会如此之好。新弗拉芒联盟党一直声称比利时讲荷兰语的那部分地区—佛兰德斯给瓦勒尼亚—南部贫困的法语地区资助过多。他认为本党在当地的成功将有助于他建立纲领，在2014年的下次全国选举中与社会党总理迪鲁伯一比高下。

Israeli air strikes have killed two militants in central Gaza bringing to five the total number of Palestinians killed there since Saturday. The Israeli military said it targeted a rocket squad, one of the militants killed in the Israeli attacks has been identified as the Salafist leader, Hisham al-Saedni who was killed on Saturday night.

以色列在加沙中部的空袭杀死了两名武装人员，至此周六以来死亡的巴勒斯坦人达到5人。以色列军方称袭击的目标是一支火箭筒兵小队 ，在以色列袭击中死亡的一名武装人员现已确认是萨拉菲斯特的领导人—周六晚上被杀的Hisham al-Saedni。