In a speech, we never remember what we want. This Wednesday, after the National Security Council, the same feeling was perceived by many. It’s the beginning of freedom, restaurants and cafes will reopen, the personal bubble will be able to go up to 10 people, we are talking about holidays in concrete terms. And so, feeling retained and shared, it is deconfinement. Everything is better, everything is fine …
This feeling was brought about by Sophie Wilmès. Until now, she had, it is true, rarely sold a dream. Remember, on April 15, she said: “No one can say today when we can resume our normal lives. The road is still long and strewn with obstacles“. On May 13, she still said: “We must face the facts. There will probably be no return to normal for the summer “.
This Wednesday, June 3, is the return of hope
Everyone will remember what Sophie Wilmès said this Wednesday, June 3, her “Everything is allowed except…” and especially, “Freedom is the rule and prohibitions the exception“. Once that is said, the citizen confined for weeks exults. For him, the pandemic is over.
But the citizen did not listen to everything. Sophie Wilmès did not stop at the same time recalling the importance of respecting social distancing and health protection measures but without prohibiting anything too much. Now is the time, even more than before, to empower citizens. His freedom goes through there.
But perhaps the hardest part is yet to come
It is obvious, the economic crisis is here. We need a real stimulus policy. And everyone has to get started.
This Wednesday afternoon, in this regard, the press point was revealing of the current political climate. Sophie Wilmès pleaded again for the establishment of a new federal government with a real majority.
Jan Jambon, the Flemish Minister-President, praised the first part of his government’s recovery plan. Just to show that Flanders was going ahead. And Elio Di Rupo, the Walloon minister-president, to insist on the measures already taken and still to be taken on the social level to help the citizens. In three interventions, everything was said.
But hey, this Wednesday, June 3, what mattered most was that the feeling of freedom returned. And, in the short term, it’s probably the most important.
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