Does Georges-Louis Bouchez want to abolish the Ministry of Culture? The PS is worried about the “danger” of a “right-handed drift”

Georges-Louis Bouchez cited his “ideal political model” in the columns of the newspaper Le Soir on Saturday. A system without a Ministry of Culture. Words that cause an attack of hives among the Engaged and the PS.

In his “ideal political model“, Georges-Louis Bouchez, president of the MR, imagines a French-speaking Belgium without a Ministry of Culture. “See in the United States, there are none“, he explained to the newspaper Le Soir.

The main interested party, Elisabeth Degryse (Les Engagés), Minister of Culture in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, directly stepped up to the plate, via a press release on social networks. “One society, one history, one culture is not the other. We need a Ministry of Culture as conductor with a will that guarantees the defense of the general interest and respect for cultural diversity.“, she wrote.

Among the socialists too, the remarks, interpreted as a cultural offensive and a “danger“, shock. The PS is worried about a “an endangerment of French-speaking democratic values ​​and a worrying right-wing drift“, reports our colleagues from the newspaper Le Soir. “We must do something, react, the president of the MR is attacking the values ​​on which our life in society is based, tolerance, the diversity of cultures.“

Georges-Louis Bouchez’s position is not new. Already in 2019 he wanted to hire “a cultural battle“.

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