“A historically liberal municipality dear to our heart, which carries the capital of culture project for 2030, Molenbeek should be at the heart of regional redeployment,” regrets Leisterh, “but it is today run by the communists, like an experiment of the worst kind”, regrets the president of the French-speaking liberals in Brussels.
Remember that the MR suffered a net loss in seats in Molenbeek in the municipal elections on October 13, 2024, going from 13 to 8 seats. At the same time, the PTB jumped by 4 seats, to reach 11 members on the Municipal Council. The PS kept the best score, but fell from 17 to 12 seats. Let us also remember that this virulent exit from David Leisterh comes the day after another majority announcement, in Forest, where PS and Ecolo also joined forces with the PTB.
“A cover-up for dictatorships”
This is perhaps what pushes Leisterh to quote Marx, something unusual in an MR press release, especially in the lines of a Brussels regional leader: “Marx said: ‘A step forward is better than’ a dozen programs’, this is the heart of the communist strategy, the concealment of the project to infiltrate power and better establish its positions”, reprimands the liberal, as a reminder in charge of negotiating the next Brussels government with Engagés and P.S. “We must not be fooled or naive.”
To finish expressing his dissatisfaction, David Leisterh attacks “certain media” which, according to him, “are talking about what they call a ‘social democratic’ project. It’s a shame. He doesn’t there is nothing social in communism, there is only a planned bankruptcy which will drag everyone, the weakest first, into an unnamed precipice. There is nothing democratic in it. ideology which at all times and in all places has been nothing more than a cover-up for authoritarian and bloodthirsty dictatorships.” Leisterh is not finished: “In the era of social networks and fake news of all kinds, the duty of the press is to guarantee quality intellectual work and information without bias, not to create the conditions for its accession to power. This establishes a position.
