For his first experience at the federal negotiating table, the ex-informer Bouchez is surprised by certain attitudes.
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Ithe finished his mission informant on Friday evening. The time is at the first assessment, still a little hot. But also to the analysis, for this young president of the MR who is Georges-Louis Bouchez, of the way in which negotiations are going on in Belgium the negotiations for the formation of a federal government. Because the neophyte he was at the table was surprised, sometimes shocked, in more ways than one.
What surprised him in the first place was “the fact that not everyone really feels responsible. This mission, I ate it from the inside. It’s still the future of the country it’s about! And I haven’t always felt this sense of urgency in everyone. There is a tendency to consider that it is the fault of the other, that the other has only to move. “
“Don’t lock yourself in patterns”
Because it is not only the general interest that drives the negotiators: “At one or the other moment, it is clear that there are personal or partisan interests at stake, that we try to hide under other appearances. In this mission, I had only one objective: to have a government. I will not be a minister, not a prime minister. Others had or have ambitions of this type or hope for certain things. “He recognizes it:” In formations like this, there are careers at stake, people who were ministers and may not be anymore, people ready to make very strong concessions to become them, and it influences. I’m not throwing stone for it, but you have to be able to change it. Not to mention “ego war”: “Some have been bothered by the visibility the mission has brought. Brought him.
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