SP.A will change its name to ‘Vooruit’ this year. Chairman Conner Rousseau has just announced this via Instagram. With the new name, the party wants to develop into a contemporary movement. “The operation must be completed in December and we will really change our name,” says the chairman.
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Come on, socialist movement. That will be the new name of SP.A. by the end of this year. The party bureau has given chairman Conner Rousseau the green light to start the process for the name change. Just before the summer, the members had also not opposed a new name.
“In the coming months we will be shaping the Forward project together,” says Rousseau. “Vooruit will be more than a new name, it will be a movement with a view to the future with which we want to bring all progressive Flemish people together and we want to do politics in a new, positive way.”
Socialist movement
Rousseau already wrote it in his declaration of intent for the presidency, now almost a year ago: “We are the party that stands on the side of all people who work hard every day to make ends meet, and of all people who lack nothing and work hard. to get ahead in life. A society only improves if everyone improves. If everyone does their bit and everyone gets something in return. ” It turned out to be a hint to the new name, which the chairman already had in mind at the time.
“Since I became chairman, we have immediately started to renew the party into a socialist movement,” adds Rousseau. “Behind the scenes we have been working hard for months to renew and professionalize our organization. To turn a classic party into a real movement that fights against the rigidity in politics and reconnects people in a positive, ambitious and hopeful future project. Now that will also be visible with a new name. ”
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