BRUSSELS (AFP) - Nearly half of Belgium's Dutch-speaking Flemish community wants the country to split up, a poll revealed Tuesday, 100 days after a general election and with no new federal government in sight.

In answer to the question "Do you want Belgium to be split up," 46.1 percent of respondents in the richer Flemish north said ‘yes' and 49.6 percent ‘no.'

The rest gave no opinion, according to the poll published in the Dutch language Het Laatste Nieuws, the biggestselling daily in the country. Most Flemish respondents, 65.6 percent, believe that Belgium will split "sooner or later," according to the survey, with 29.9 percent disagreeing. The Dutch-speaking Flemish community accounts for 60 percent of Belgium's 10.5 million people. A further 3.5 million live in French-speaking Wallonia, and one million in the largely francophone Brussels federal capital region.

The poll comes as the attempts to forge a coalition Flemish-Walloon government show little sign of success, although Flemish christian-democrat Yves Leterme remains the favorite in Flanders to become prime minister.

"What we are seeing is a radicalization in Flanders," Flemish christiandemocrat CDV president Jo Vandeurzen told the paper.