The socialist president “doesn’t care about Belgium”, according to the leader of the Flemish nationalists.
For his first major interview since the elections of May 26, Bart De Wever does not take tweezers. If he does not spare the president of the Open VLD, Gwendolyn Rutten, the target of his attacks is especially Paul Magnette (PS). The nationalist leader still does not manage to digest the exit of the bourgmestre of Charleroi this February 14, which led to the term
resignation of Koen Geens (CD&V) from his royal mission. “He was a weak leader and made a loose choice by saying stop,” defeated De Wever this Saturday, February 22 in the columns of
Het Laatste Nieuws.
The mayor of Antwerp very personally took the decision of the socialist president not to continue negotiations with the N-VA. “Paul Magnette has shown a brutality that I had never known before. He humiliated Koen Geens to the bone, as well as the N-VA and all of Flanders in reality,” he insists. , even judging that the PS has shown “unprecedented arrogance”.
For De Wever, the socialist president signed the death warrant for Belgium. “If you want to blow up Belgium, reproduce the acts of Magnette”, he quips, adding that the bourgmestre of Charleroi “has nothing to do with Belgium”.
“Belgium has been dead for ten years”
The leader of the Flemish nationalists recognized, however, that our country, according to him, had not existed for a long time. “Belgium has been dead for ten years. Since all this time, we have no longer been able to rule the country with a majority on both sides of the linguistic border. The country is finished,” he declared to
Het Laatste Nieuws. Paul Magnette knows this too, but he dares not tell his constituents. (….) He wants to enjoy the financial comfort of Flanders for as long as possible “.
The successor of Elio Di Rupo was quick to react to the words of Bart De Wever. “I believe in the future of Belgium and that is why I refuse to let the separatist vision of the N-VA be imposed on me,” the socialist wrote on Twitter.
The tone continues to rise between Paul Magnette and Bart De Wever since the resignation of Koen Geens. The socialist president had notably
Express, this Tuesday, February 18, to ask the leader of the N-VA to “take a little height.” “Bart De Wever and Koen Geens are spreading untruths,” had denounced Magnette on the social network to the blue bird. The strongman of the Flemish nationalists had on his side
pointed to the “PS diktat”.
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