Belgian politicians from different parties have already congratulated Joe Biden and Kamala Harris via Twitter. Expectations are high, it turns out. Not everyone is happy with Biden’s victory, especially at the Vlaams Belang, a disappointed reaction is recorded.
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Flemish minister Bart Somers (Open Vld) hopes for ‘a world with more respect, progress and humanity’. Liberal party chairman Egbert Lachaert launched a quote in English: ‘The greatest victory comes after the hardest battle’. He calls on Donald Trump to stop tweeting. MEP Geert Bourgeois (N-VA) hopes for a restoration of multilateralism and a rescue and reform of the World Trade Organization. The end of the trade war would be good for ‘export nation of Flanders’, he thinks.
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N-VA Member of Parliament Theo Francken also congratulates Biden, ‘elected president of our biggest ally the US’. Francken calls for cooperation within NATO for the ‘safety and security of people in the West’. Federal Minister of the Interior Annelies Verlinden (CD&V) in turn hopes that the ‘contradictions will now be transcended so that the president becomes the leader of all Americans, including those who did not choose him’. Her party companion and Flemish minister Hilde Crevits calls Biden and Harris a ‘fantastic duo’.
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Green chairman Meyrem Almaci calls the victory of Biden and Harris ‘historic in many ways’. “With Biden, America gets a president who wants to work on a greener and more social policy. This opens new perspectives for the EU,” said the party’s Twitter account. Sp.a MP Meryame Kitir speaks of an “important victory. not only for the US, but also for the world. ”“ A choice for an America that is more united and committed internationally to peace, the planet and prosperity, ”she says.
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Member of the European Parliament for Vlaams Belang Gerolf Annemans looks back on Trump’s presidency. ‘It was beautiful. He took up the gauntlet against the ruling elites, The Deep State, which is permeating left-liberal multicultural and multilateral regimes throughout the former Free West. The White House is now lost again. But tomorrow will be a new day, ‘he says.
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PS chairman Paul Magnette says that a bad period is coming to an end. “The new president must now work to unite the country, to fight effectively against the pandemic, but also to respond to the call for greater social justice from the Americans who have supported him.” Georges-Louis Bouchez, chairman of the MR, winks at Trump rhetoric in congratulations: “Make America and the World Great Again,” he writes.
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