In Brussels, Forest is the first municipality to have a majority with the PTB. This Monday, the leaders of the coalition unveiled their program. The radical left party, which now presents itself as “realist”, has watered its wine.
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Journalist at the Powers center
By Julien ThomasPublished on 11/25/2024 at 6:50 p.m.
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A Near the Gare du Midi, the Brass cultural center occupies the building of the former Wielemans-Ceuppens brewery. It is in this exceptional forest site, which has preserved the immense vats and machines of its industrial past, that the leaders of the new PS-PTB-Ecolo coalition presented their majority agreement on Monday. The current alderman and future mayor Charles Spapens as well as Simon de Beer (PTB) and Séverine de Laveleye (Ecolo), who will soon be, respectively, alderman and president of the CPAS, organized a press conference. A certain number of curious journalists had made the trip in view of the specificity of the future municipal team. In the capital, Forest becomes the first commune co-led by the Marxist party.
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