“Decumul in Brussels Parliament: No More Dual Roles for Mayors and Aldermen”

The decumul is already a fact in the Brussels Parliament. After 2024 no mayors or aldermen will be allowed to sit there. Accumulation is also not possible within the Green party.

“No one can work two full-time jobs,” says Groen chairman Jeremie Vaneeckhout. “The idea that aldermen or mayors who are also members of parliament could do that is an illusion. It is high time that there was austerity again in the power that politicians have and the remuneration they receive for it.”

According to information gathered by Groen, 35 of the 69 incumbent parliamentarians of the majority also have an executive local mandate. “Mayors and aldermen who are also members of parliament string together the absences in parliament,” says Vaneeckhout. “Some of them you simply never see in parliament. That is contemptuous towards the voter who has asked them to stand up for them.”