The PS seems to be getting closer and closer to the PTB at the local level. Ahmed Laaouej describes a party that is now “constructive and open”, but nuance: “We are not fooled”.
This week we witnessed a bolt from the blue in the Belgian political sky: the alliance of the Socialist Party with the PTB in Mons. On this subject, Mayor Nicolas Martin (PS) declared: “My fears, which share a certain number of fellow citizens that I can understand, fell over the days as I saw the moderate and constructive nature of my interlocutors.“.
Questioned by Ahmed Laaouej, this Sunday in Face à Buxant, said “understand perfectly” this agreement between the PS and the PTB, “given, unfortunately, the deleterious nature of the campaign led by the MR against Nicolas Martin, making any collaboration with the Mons MR impossible“.
For the president of the Socialist Party of Brussels, Nicolas Martin “who is a very competent and responsible man” chose the PTB and Ecolo for “make a program for your municipality that best corresponds to the interests of the people of Montois“.
Soon new coalitions?
So, should we still expect other coalitions between the PS and the PTB, for example in Molenbeek, Forest, or Schaerbeek? “It is not excluded“, answers Ahmed Laaouej directly. “The options are on the table, in Molenbeek and Forest, discussions and negotiations are very advanced, it is an option that could materialize in the days to come“, he confirms.
“For Schaerbeek, things are very different, a channel of discussion is open, but here too, the attitude of some makes the formation of a majority very difficult, notably arrogance and a lot of democratic denial, because people do not want recognize that the Socialist Party in Schaerbeek came first“.
We are not fools
How can we explain that the discourse of the PS has changed, vis-à-vis the PTB? “This speech was based on observations. We deplored and noted that the PTB, nowhere, wanted to take its responsibilities. Today we see that the PTB is a different attitude“replies Ahmed Laaouej who readily describes the PTB as a party”constructive and very open“at the local level.”They say they are ready to go with, in fact, a very reasonable attitude, without arrogance. It changes some people.“
So, is the PTB becoming the PS’s best friend? “We are not fools“, nuance the guest of Martin Buxant. “I was leader of the socialist group in Parliament. I saw the PTB’s repeated attacks against the Socialist Party. I don’t forget anything, I’m not fooled. But at the same time, we must be able, at a given moment, to sit down at the table, particularly when we have to make majorities at the local level, without which there is no majority and we do not know how to work in the interest people“, term Ahmed Laaouej.
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