They will receive from the governor of the institution an overview of Belgium’s budgetary and financial situation at a time when it is at risk of an excessive deficit procedure.
“We must now spend time getting to know each other better rather than each remaining at a distance with exclusively bilaterals. At some point, we must begin to debate the substance,” underlined the president of Les Engagés, Maxime Prévot, to his arrived at the meeting.
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Can we see in this meeting the prologue or even the first act of an “Arizona” alliance? “People voted, clearly, there are quite obvious elements and there are not 10,000 possible combinations. Now, we have to work and take our responsibilities,” noted the president of the MR, Georges-Louis Butcher.
Vooruit has so far expressed his fears about a formula in which the Flemish socialists would be the only left-wing party and has also shown relative distrust of Mr Bouchez. “We have to move forward, we have to work, I sometimes read some people who procrastinate in the press. But we negotiate at the table, not in the media,” he pointed out.
Other meetings are planned in the coming days. On July 10, the pre-former will report to the King before, perhaps, receiving the mission of forming a government. Will he then be the next Prime Minister? “We do not have a veto on a particular person, certainly on a personality who comes from a democratic party. Bart De Wever is one of the winners of the elections, there are others but he is completely legitimate “If, at some point, for it to work, Bart De Wever has to be Prime Minister, that’s not a problem,” Mr. Bouchez said.
