The president of the CD&V, Joachim Coens, has not yet given up hope of a federal government formed around the PS / N-VA axis. “They said to give them 50 days and they are blocked after 25! I think we still have to make an effort to be able to form a majority,” Coens said Monday night on Terzake, the VRT program.
As leaders of the largest Flemish and French-speaking parties, Bart De Wever (N-VA) and Paul Magnette (PS) have tried to move forward in forming a new government in recent weeks. CD&V, cdH and sp.a were willing to enter the discussion, but the preformers failed to bring a sixth party on board to secure a majority.
On Monday, De Wever and Magnette tendered their resignation to the King, who has yet to respond. Joachim Coens still has hopes for a reboot. “If the biggest parties together ask to act, it seems to me that we should continue and try to reach this good coalition agreement”, according to him.
It is suggested here and there that the attempt failed on the pressure that the PS would have operated to push the MR out. “At six partners, everyone is necessary, which makes some people feel better,” Mr. Coens said. “These are the two preformers who at one point make the choice to continue with a certain composition.”
A purple green track then? “I don’t think that’s the solution now. I think we still have many opportunities to speak,” said Joachim Coens. According to him, his party does not offer exclusivity to the green or liberal parties, but “it remains important, on the basis of what two parties can find in the form of consensus, to allow the other parties to participate in the discussion and ‘get a majority “.
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