Lhe night was short for many political leaders across Belgium. Everywhere, coalition agreements have been found. This is particularly the case in Brussels, where Philippe Close announced early in the morning that an agreement had been found between the PS-Vooruit, MR+ and Engagés lists.
Still in Brussels, there is an agreement in Anderlecht to place a PS-Vooruit/MR-Engagés-CD&V-Open Vld coalition in charge of the municipality, their leaders, namely the mayor, announced together to the Belga agency socialist Fabrice Cumps and the head of the MR-Engagés-CD&V-Open Vld list Gaëtan Van Goidsenhoven.
Former minister MR Marie Christine Marghem will be the next mayor of Tournai at the head of a tripartite majority MR, Committed, Ecolo, she announced Monday on La Première (RTBF). Arriving first but in slight decline, the PS of Paul-Olivier Delannois is thus sent back to the opposition.
One thing is certain, the azure blue MR-Engagés wave remains present in the south of the country, but the PS is still alive there, noted the French-speaking editorialists, the day after the municipal election. They are worried about communitarian upsurges as well as the increasing rate of absenteeism.
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Because in fact, the “PS is still alive”, writes Béatrice Delvaux in The evening. In Mons, in a “symbolic fight”, Georges-Louis Bouchez (MR), “did not get the scalp of the socialist mayor in place”, and above all, the president of the MR “did not get the scalp of the president of the PS, Paul Magnette,” she notes. “So, yes, the Socialists are losing absolute majorities (Herstal) and taking some serious blows (Molenbeek or Andenne) but, as a visibly relieved Paul Magnette declared very quickly on Sunday evening, the PS remains first in the large French-speaking cities where he was first.
