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SP.A–Spirit

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 2, 2022
Entity authorityQ7392393 ↗
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The SP.a–SPIRIT was a Belgian electoral coalition between the Flemish parties Socialist Party Different (SP.a) and Spirit. In the general elections on June 10, 2007, the Social Liberal party formed an electoral alliance with the Socialist Party Different (sp.a) and won 14 of the 88 Flemish seats in the House of Representatives and 4 of the 40 Flemish seats in the Senate.

The Social Liberal Party ended its collaboration with SP.A in the autumn of 2008, following a scandal that forced its leader, Bettina Geysen, to resign.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Spirit, Open-knowledge and entry providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “SP.A–Spirit” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.