For the outgoing mayor of Evere and federal deputy Ridouane Chahid, this supernote is simply unbearable. “Elke Van den Brandt’s institutional supernote is tailor-made for the N-VA, which means that de facto, it excludes us”explains the socialist. “Over the last 20 years, the PS as the leading party had managed to overcome community divisions and calm institutional relations in Brussels: there was talk of bilingual lists, of a Region in its own right which autonomously and independently determined its policy, particularly in towards national parties. Today is a 20-year flashback. It is the return of the community as a prerequisite. The community has been poisoning political life for too long and pushing the daily concerns of citizens into the background. Groen therefore decided to serve the soup at the N-VA”he continues.
Brussels training: “Constructive” meeting for Dutch-speaking negotiators
Then predicting that “the N-VA in the Brussels government means paralysis and the placing under supervision of the Brussels Region. At the PS, we do not forget and we do not forgive the excesses of Théo Francken or Jan Jambon and their connections with the extreme right. We are surprised to see environmentalists falling into the nationalist trap. The convergences on the right are displayed on the socio-economic: 0% construction of social housing but 100% kilometer tax. And in the end, it’s the working classes who pay.”
