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1571:Categories
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1201:9033419211
1104:References
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101:Founder(s)
1548:De Morgen
1456:sp.a rood
1315:Vooruit (
368:socialism
350:Karl Marx
308:in 1945.
300:party in
298:socialist
254:Elections
221:(1923-40)
201:left-wing
159:Le Peuple
155:Newspaper
123:Dissolved
87:President
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1082:See also
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484:301,940
398:Flanders
342:Brussels
333:De Zwaan
176:Ideology
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994:29.44%
964:32.11%
934:37.03%
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