“Their fears in institutional matters, I share them. Nothing they say offends me, except that I took the trouble to express it around the table. If they want to mark the future reform, they must accept a negotiation, ”he said in an interview published on the L’Echo website. Thursday morning, the liberals and environmentalists issued a joint statement in which they reject the institutional component proposed by preformers Bart De Wever (N-VA) and Paul Magnette (PS). The two political families also say they refuse to “take part in an escalation that pits them against each other”.
The cdH is part of the “bubble of the five” with the socialists (PS and sp.a), the CD&V and the N-VA, which has 69 seats out of 150 in the Chamber. This “club of five” must therefore be extended to at least one party in order to obtain a majority. The Liberals and / or the Greens can top it up.
“The work in progress aims to put on the starting line a sufficient number of parties to have a parliamentary majority. At this stage, we are not further away”, specifies Maxime Prévot in L’Echo. According to him, “the duty of responsible politicians is to take height, to leave partisan postures and dogmatic approaches to be exclusively oriented on the search for solutions.” The president of the cdH adds that he is not opposed to a reform of the State: “when I call for a new reform of the State, it is not to serve soup to the N- VA, but because, in the very interest of Francophones, our state system must function more effectively and efficiently “, adding that there is a series of” red cards “, including the elimination of linguistic facilities.
“A return to the polls would be an absolute tragedy”, he concludes. “Today, polls show an extreme right at over 30% in the north of the country.”
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