The president of Vooruit, Melissa Depraetere, does not exclude that her party enters the next federal government without the French-speaking socialists of the PS. This is what she said Monday evening during the show ‘The Election Table’ on Play4. “It’s always easier together than alone,” she said, but “it’s possible.”
The two socialist parties are currently part of the federal government and are often seen as united and indivisible, but this may not necessarily be the case after the June 9 elections. “This has happened before,” Melissa Depraetere, president of Vooruit, said on the show. In the Leterme I government, for example, the PS sat without the sp.a. of the time.
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The socialist explained that the PS and Vooruit do not always fully agree with each other. “We are two distinct parties, although we have a strong common social base,” she said. For example, when Vooruit Minister Frank Vandenbroucke put on the table, during the last legislature, a plan to activate long-term patients, the French-speaking sister party initially opposed it, explained Ms. Depraetere.
It is therefore not an obligation, but the president of Vooruit prefers to work with the PS. “It’s always easier with two social parties than alone,” she says. During the last legislature, for example, Vooruit was able to increase minimum wages and pensions and reduce VAT on energy with the PS, she emphasized.
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