According to him, a majority was found after five months, on the Flemish side, but “as a result, it is the PS which does not want”.
“The ecologists don’t want to either. Brussels is burning, but they are all looking elsewhere for political reasons. After seven months we can no longer afford it in the face of worrying unemployment figures, budgetary slippage, mobility problems and the Audi factory closing,” he said.
Brussels negotiations at an impasse? David Leisterh, despite a new refusal from Ecolo, clings to the track of a majority without the PS
In harsher terms towards the PS, the president of the MR Georges-Louis Bouchez judged that the PS, Ecolo and Défi components of the Brussels government PS-Ecolo-DéFI in current affairs would be the “accountants” for the aggravated budget deficit , social decline and “another major risk: that of seeing others tempted to manage Brussels from the outside if part of the Brussels political class does not do so from the inside”.
“We must show ourselves worthy of the autonomy of the Capital Region… For the MR, Brussels does not rhyme with supervision”, he insisted, summarizing the current French-speaking Brussels chessboard with two components: a bloc “reasonable” composed of the MR and the Engagés believing in progress and democracy, and a bloc of “rebellious” Belgium composed of the PTB, Ecolo and the PS”, a left wishing to “to make up for what she lost through the streets” during the June election.
In the eyes of the president of the MR, the source of the current blockage in Brussels is to be found in the PS. He “has been negotiating with the N-VA for ten years, but considers that it is “the two N-VA deputies” of the Brussels Parliament who represent the danger, and not “the highest regional deficit in the country, the bottleneck of Brussels in terms of mobility, impoverishment or lack of security. These are pretexts because the task is immense,” he judged.
