The President of the PTB Raoul Hedebouw was the guest of the show It’s not every day on Sunday. During this interview, the federal deputy was notably questioned by Paul Magnette about the election expenses of the Labor Party, in particular on social networks.
“We know that the PTB has spent more than 2 million euros on advertising on Facebook. It’s a public agent since these are public grants from political parties, paid with workers’ taxes. It’s very effective , because when you go on Facebook, it is impossible to escape the videos sponsored by the PTB. But how, when you are a Communist Party, can you explain and justify the use of 2 million euros of public money for finance advertising on Facebook, which is also an American multinational that does not pay taxes. Isn’t it, a bit contradictory for a Communist Party”, asks the president of the PS.
Raoul Hedebouw’s answer: “The first thing that’s crazy is that Paul Magnette himself advertises on Facebook”he pointed out. “Secondly, most of our spending is done in Flanders, because there is terrible electoral competition with the far right on social networks. We spend a lot in the traditional media. The opposition spent 3% of the time antenna in Flanders. There is therefore a fight to be waged on social networks. If it is a problem of electoral expenditure, the PTB has proposed to reduce the allocations of political parties by two. Political parties receive far too many money. But it’s the other parties, including Paul Magnette’s, that are blocking. I think that, like the French and American left, which invests in Facebook, that’s where you have to be. That’s where the people are. citizens.”
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