Kristof Calvo (Green): ‘Don’t know if I will remain a politician …

Not Kristof Calvo, but Petra De Sutter will become minister and deputy prime minister in the De Croo government. Calvo reacted visibly emotional in the interpretation program on Sunday morning The Seventh Day. “There is a breach of trust.”

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Green party leader Kristof Calvo grabbed hold of a minister post in the new government. Especially the way in which he had to hear that news is difficult for him. ‘I heard the news somewhere in a park in Ghent among the playing children. That is not exactly a good place to hear such personal bad news. ‘

Calvo was visibly disappointed. ‘It is not written in the constitution that I should become a minister. To be clear: I really wish my colleagues Petra De Sutter and Tinne Van der Straeten. I have a lot of respect for both women. At the same time, I find it difficult to hide my personal disappointment. ‘

Although it was Groen’s political council that decided on the appointment of the Groen ministers – and not chairman Meryem Almaci – Almaci as chairman would have fully drawn the card for De Sutter and not for Kristof Calvo. The latter lashed out at the way in which the ministerial choice would have been directed by his own chairman. ‘That’s not the way I want to do politics. There is clearly a breach of trust. ‘

How should things continue with Kristof Calvo’s political career? ‘I didn’t become a politician to necessarily have a title, I became a politician to have an impact. I can still do that from the House. Yet I can only do politics if it is for the full 150 percent and if I can do it in complete confidence. At the moment I really don’t know if I will continue in politics. I’m going to let it all sink in first. ‘

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