Walloon Rally Rassemblement wallon | |
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| Leader | Claude Thayse |
| Founded | 1968 |
| Headquarters | Charleroi |
| Ideology | Regionalism Walloon independentism Rattachism |
| Political position | Centre tocentre-left |
TheWalloon Rally (French:Rassemblement wallon,pronounced[ʁasɑ̃bləmɑ̃walɔ̃];RW) is aregionalist[1]political party in Belgium, active inWallonia since 1968. The party favouredfederalism and since 1985 independence.
Founded on 7 March 1968, the party contested theBelgian general election of 1968 in a coalition with theFDF, aBrussels-basedfrancophone political party, receiving 5.9% of the vote nationally. The party's own results in elections to theBelgian 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 theWalloon Popular Rally, a more left-wing grouping, which later merged with theSocialist Party. TheWallonia-France Rally, which supports the union of Wallonia andFrance, was formed by the rump of the party's membership in 1999. Afterwards, the Walloon Rally left the WFR and formed Union For Wallonia with the France Party, Wallonia Social Democracy, Get Up Wallonia and the Brussels' Walloons.
In 2010, Union For Wallonia, which took part in June federal elections under the nameW+, was renamedWalloon Rally, which was its largest component.
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