During the PS’s greetings in Charleroi, Paul Magnette declared himself a candidate for the post of Prime Minister and mocked Bart De Wever, who had done the same a few days earlier.
The president of the PS, Paul Magnette, mocked Thursday evening the will displayed by his counterpart of the N-VA, Bart de Wever, to become Prime Ministerwhile reiterating that he himself was ready to “take responsibility” at the head of a federal government after the elections on June 9.
“Mr De Wever, since it is about him, is now telling us that he wants to become Prime Minister. We answer him: Mr. De Wever, when you want to lead a country, we must have dreams and ambitions for this country and not wish for an end to it,” he said during the traditional New Year greetings session of the Socialist Party in Charleroi, a city of which he is mayor. Paul Magnette was referring to the first article of the statutes of Mr. De Wever’s nationalist party, which is create an independent Flemish republic and therefore to split Belgium.
The president of the Flemish nationalists declared last Saturday that he was ready to lead a kind of business office focused on the budget and socio-economic reforms after the federal elections in June, which he hopes will once again make the N-VA the leading party in Flanders, at the expense of the far-right Vlaams Belang, at the top of the list. surveys.
When you want to lead a country, you have to unite, bring together, federate all Belgians and not pit them against each other.
“When you want to lead a country, you have to unite, bring together, federate all Belgians and not pit them against each other. When you want to lead a country, you simply have to love it,” said the president of the PS in front of an audience of representatives and activists. “And we this country, We like it“, he continued to thunderous applause. “We are intensely Walloon, French-speaking Brussels, German-speaking. But we are also Belgians, attached to everything that this country has given us,” said Mr. Magnette, speaking of “land of freedom,” “prosperity” and “solidarity.”
He immediately denounced “this voice coming from the north, which says, which tells us that this country is ruined and that we must prepare for its dismantling”. “You hear it this sinister speech who sees everywhere only what is going wrong and who promises us, to cure us, the return of liberal austerity. You see like me, running behind the extreme right, the Flemish nationalists are rediscovering their old recipes: pitting people against each other, designating scapegoats,” said Mr. Magnette.
Paul Magnette would like to see himself as Prime Minister
“We want to bring together the Walloons, the Flemings and the people of Brussels (he mentioned the counterpart of the PS in Flanders, the “comrades” of Come on who, according to him, are “hand in hand” with the French-speaking socialists). We want to protect, with the same conviction, men and women, young and old, able-bodied and disabled, those who have a job and those who do not. We want everyone to be able to live their lives,” said the president of the PS at the start of the electoral campaign 140 days before the polls.
“We are ready to assume our responsibilities. And I am ready, personally, to assume mine if the citizens place their trust in us”, he assured at the start of the year which will be marked by general elections (legislative, regional and European and then later municipal in Belgium and in the world, with half of the world’s population of voting age is called to the polls in free or predetermined ballots). Mr. Magnette also attacked the far right, which seems to be making progress almost everywhere in Europe and the world and which he described as a “peril”.
2024-01-19 15:02:26
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