“I leave with the feeling of duty accomplished”he concluded.
Dimitri Legasse, after this tribute to Maurice Dehu, announced that he also had to honor someone with whom he had not always agreed. A nice euphemism to invite André Flahaut to come, too, and receive a gift of thanks from the Socialists for his exceptional career.
“You will have to wait until I am dead.”
But the Minister of State did not hide his annoyance. Politely thanking for the gift – given directly to someone in the assembly – he clarified that he did not want this type of tribute. “You will have to wait until I am dead.”he said, causing a polar wind to blow over the assembly before returning to the audience.
“If I had been told that I would attend a standing ovation for André given by Dimitri, I am not sure that I would have believed it”tried the president of the socialist party Paul Magnette, without managing to relax the atmosphere…
