The victory to which the president of the MR led his people on Sunday is total. Made of multiple local successes… and a few failures. And now: what future for the president who dares everything?
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Deputy Head of the Powers Department
By Martine DubuissonPublished on 06/10/2024 at 8:33 p.m.
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Lman doubts nothing. Dare everything. To all the nerves.
Going on Flemish TV for five years speaking French (while promising that soon, I swear, it will be in Dutch).
Promise 30% of the votes to the Liberals when he runs for the presidency of his party, even if the MR is then only credited with 20%.
Repeatedly attacking a government partner (Tinne Van der Straeten), to the point of evoking her “abysmal stupidity”, her “bad faith”, her “incompetence”.
Appoint a journalist (Hadja Lahbib) Minister of Foreign Affairs in the middle of the war in Ukraine, alienating all those who considered themselves more legitimate.
Dismissing a Walloon minister (Valérie de Bue) with a simple gesture to accommodate his then enemy (Denis Ducarme). Designate Mathieu Michel as one of the three MR members of the federal government, as a pledge to the Michel family but causing an internal bronca.
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