The proposed modification of the New municipal law tabled by Marc-Jean-Ghyssels and whose consideration is planned for Friday in plenary session aims to lift the rule of pure and simple incompatibility of these mandates in favor of that of an impediment of the mandate of deputy/senator in the event of exercise of the mandate of mayor and alderman.
This scenario potentially concerns, in particular, the leaders of the Brussels MR and PS, David Leisterh and Ahmed Laaouej, as well as Vincent De Wolf, prospective mayors in their respective municipalities and elected to the Brussels Parliament.
The adoption of the proposal would allow them to retain their parliamentary mandate without being able to exercise it as long as they are mayor or alderman and therefore to regain it in the event of subsequent renunciation of this mandate, or when that mandate expires. -this.
“Bad”
For Les Engagés expected to constitute the French-speaking wing of a future Brussels majority, alongside the MR and the PS, this text is “bad in substance and in form”.
“Decumulation is a measure of good governance in Brussels, because the Region has supervision over the municipalities. It is healthy not to have deputies who are at the same time mayor or alderman… I applied it myself in 2019, even though decumulation was not yet obligatory”, commented Thursday the leader of the Engagés in the regional Parliament, Christophe De Beukelaer.
Beyond his refusal of an “attempt to weaken this progress in good governance”, Mr. De Beukelaer judged that the text does not aim at the general interest but that of “a few”. What signal would this parliament send, when the Region has no government, when the budgetary situation is getting worse every day, when the social-health sector is out of breath demonstrating in the streets of Brussels,” he added.
