Lhe president of the Engagés Maxime Prévot judged it premature, Tuesday, to call on the Open VLD to replace Vooruit in the federal negotiations, while the trainer Bart De Wever is expected at the end of the morning at the King.
“We must try until the end to get Vooruit back at the table. The balance of government action will be much more appreciable with an Arizona” (N-VA, MR, Engagés, Vooruit, CD&V), affirmed Mr. Prévot on the airwaves of La Première.
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Trapped?
The centrist, however, does not hide the “unpleasant feeling of having been had a little” by the president of the Flemish socialists, Conner Rousseau. “He had asked that nothing irrevocable be decided before the municipal vote. We have the feeling that he quickly concluded the Flemish (government) agreement, that he tried to garner as many alliances as possible with the N-VA in the municipal vote, and then, instead of softening , he stiffened to send us wandering.”
However, “calling on the VLD now is premature, even if it will perhaps be essential in the days or weeks to come”. A majority N-VA, MR, Engagés, CD&V, Open VLD would be politically uncomfortable for the centrists, because it would mark a “change of direction largely to the right”, and mathematically uncomfortable, since it would be based on a majority of a single vote .
Call on special powers?
In this case, Maxime Prévot does not exclude special powers, even if “this Belgian 49-3” is not his preference. “This faculty exists, it was also used – outside of the covid period – in the Dehaene years to help put Belgium back on track with a view to joining the euro zone. Today's context, dramatic on the budgetary level, could require unprecedented means.”
