Bart De Wever takes oath as mayor of Antwerp before heading to Brussels

Just after the ceremony, he left for Brussels where negotiations for the formation of a federal government are due to resume at noon.

“The devil always hides in the details and it is in the end that he appears,” he said on this subject.

“There is no greater honor for me than being mayor of this city. You never get used to passing through the doors of City Hall,” Bart De Wever also declared. “It is here, in Antwerp, that I can do the best job. At the federal level, the stable still needs to be cleaned. In Antwerp, we have already done our homework,” he added.