The Committee for Another Policy , abbreviated to CAP, was a Belgian left-wing political movement that was established in 2005, and became a political party in 2006.
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 languagegroup vote | # of overall seats won | # of languagegroup seats won | +/- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 20,083 | 0.30 | 0 / 150 | |||
| Senate | ||||||
| Election year | # of overall votes | % of overall vote | % of languagegroup vote | # of overall seats won | # of languagegroup seats won | +/- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 21,215 | 0.32 | 0 / 40 | |||
| 2010 | 6,254 | 0.10 | 0 / 40 | 0 | ||
External links
References
"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. https://web.archive.org/web/20061201174157/http://www.nonalaconstitutioneuropeenne.be/fichiers/Toelichting8102005.pdf ↩
"Jef Sleeckx vindt de tijd rijp voor een andere politiek. / Interviews / Politics.be - Jouw politieke portaalsite". Politics.be. Retrieved 2022-12-28. https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http://www.politics.be/interviews/662/#federation=archive.wikiwix.com&tab=url ↩