RTBF journalists pushed and insulted by an activist from Forza Ninove, the local Vlaams Belang

In Ninove, it is a first, the list drawn by the local Vlaams Belang figure, Guy D’haeseleer, obtains an absolute majority of seats on the municipal council, with 18 seats out of 35. The atmosphere was nevertheless tense this Sunday evening at their HQ. Our journalist and our cameraman present on site evoke a lot of nervousness towards the French-speaking media. “We were pushed around several times and insulted a lot.“, tell Thi Diem Quach.

“It was journalists and activists who intervened to allow us to come to a room in the HQ press room so that we could continue to do our work,” explains the journalist again on our antenna.

The Forza Ninove list received 47.45% of the votes, an improvement of 7.4 percentage points in its score. Positief Ninove, the list of liberal mayor Tania De Jonge, with independents and Christian Democrats, follows, at 30.8%. The Vooruit-Groen cartel is third, at 14.9%, and the N-VA is 6.9%. There were only four lists in Ninove.

Nothing now prevents Guy D’haeseleer from becoming the first Vlaams Belang mayor of Flanders. That said, the East Flanders public prosecutor’s office was informed of possible electoral fraud and opened an investigation.