Provincial Councilor Yves Derwahl demands a firm place for DG in the chamber in “La Libre”
With an opinion piece in the newspaper “La Libre”, Provincial Councilor Yves Derwahl (PFF) has called for more rights for German speakers. In the course of the next state reform, the DG would have to have a guaranteed place in the chamber enshrined in the constitution.
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The choice is explained in that Opinion piecethat “successive state reforms have given the country’s German-speaking people considerable autonomy. Today ‘Ostbelgien’ has its own parliament, its own government, its own judicial district and even guaranteed representation in the European Parliament ”.
The Eupener continues: “For the German-speaking Belgians, however, representation in the federal Chamber of Deputies is still not guaranteed despite numerous resolutions by the DG Parliament.” The constitution provides for the presence of a single German-speaking person in the Senate (currently this is Alexander Miessen from the PFF), but the presence of a deputy in the chamber (currently this is Kattrin Jadin from the PFF) is solely due to the fact that her party has reserved her an exponential place on the list for the federal elections.
Derwahl continues: “This situation is becoming more and more incomprehensible. The German-speaking Community is exercising more and more powers through the mechanism provided for in Article 139 of the Constitution, which the Walloon Region has given it for this purpose. Today it has almost become a ‘fourth region’, since it has been managing spatial planning, housing construction and certain aspects of energy since 2019. ”Added to this are the other responsibilities such as education, culture, media, tourism and employment.
Because the German-speaking population of Belgium is celebrating the 100th anniversary of their membership of the Kingdom this year thanks to the Treaty of Versailles, according to the election, “it is high time that at least one member of their group was present in the Chamber by revising Article 63 of the constitution to guarantee. Without finally giving them the opportunity to express themselves in the federal parliament, it is almost null and void to talk about the ‘best protected minority in the world’. “(Mv)
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