Belgians are staging a series of tongue-in-cheek events to mark what many there see as a new record - the world's longest wait for a government.
Belgium has been without a government for 249 days - longer than Iraq - as parties from the Dutch-speaking north and French-speaking south remain split. To mark the event, 249 people plan to strip naked in Ghent, and there will be free beer and chips in other cities.
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Organisers hope the events will boost efforts to break the political impasse. "We've had enough of political games," Kliment Kostadinov, one of the organisers said.
"We must get a government fast and a reform of our institutions that is good for all Belgians." Johan Vande Lanotte, who resigned recently from the post of king's mediator with the task of ending the crisis, urged Belgium's political leaders not to give up on finding a solution.
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