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Coronavirus: a government of full exercise only to manage the crisis

Sophie Wilmès will ask for confidence in the Chamber.

LPrime Minister Sophie Wilmès will ask Tuesday at 2 p.m. for confidence in the House of Representatives after spending time with the King, we learned Monday after a meeting of almost 5 hours which gathered in Lambermont , in addition to Mrs. Wilmès, the vice-prime ministers and the presidents or emissary of the ten parties which subscribed to the agreement concluded Sunday evening.

It has been clear since Sunday evening that this government will be able to use special powers to manage the coronavirus crisis. Divergences appeared on the other hand on the confidence that the government would require, which would make it a sort of a government of full exercise whereas, in its composition, it is always minority since the ministers come from only the MR, CD&V and Open Vld .

“It will be a full-service government, but the Declaration in the House will explain the perimeter of its action, and the government will have to stay within that perimeter,” said Open Vld Deputy Prime Minister Alexander De Croo at the exit of the meeting.

This perimeter will be the health and socio-economic management of the coronavirus crisis. For other areas of jurisdiction, the government will always be considered in current affairs, assured several party presidents.

Of the ten parties around the table Sunday and Monday, only the N-VA will not trust this government. The nationalists deem such an act unnecessary because the Wilmès team can use special powers without going through a vote of confidence, they say.

“This will have unnecessary long-term consequences,” said Peter De Roover, head of the N-VA group in the House.

His colleague Theo Francken was even clearer on Twitter. “I will not give my confidence to a Wilmès minority government. Democratic monster, “he said, but said he supported all measures against the virus.


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