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The Walloon Rally (French: Rassemblement wallon) (RW) was a Belgian political party, active in Wallonia from 1968 to 1985. The party favoured federalism.
Founded on 7 March 1968, the party contested the Belgian general election of 1968 in a cartel with the FDF, a Brussels-based francophone political party, receiving 5.9 % of the vote nationally. The party's own results in elections to the Belgian Federal Parliament were as follows.
| Election |
1968 |
1971 |
1974 |
1977 |
1978 |
1981 |
Percentage of
national vote |
3.35 |
6.69 |
5.86 |
2.96 |
2.86 |
1.71 |
| Seats |
5 |
14 |
13 |
5 |
4 |
2 |
The increasing federalisation of Belgium, and the adoption of some of the party's policies by the traditional francophone parties, resulted in a sharp decline in electoral support from 1977 onwards. A split in the early 1980s created the Walloon Popular Rally, a more left-wing grouping, which later merged with the Socialist Party. The Wallonia-France Rally, which supports the union of Wallonia and France, was formed by the rump of the party's membership.
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