Open Vld President Egbert Lachaert warned Monday that if there is no agreement on the bill that decriminalizes abortion and eases conditions by Thursday, members of his party will be free to vote , paving the way for the often delayed adoption of this text.
Mr. Lachaert, who was speaking on the microphone of VRT-radio, thus responded to his N-VA counterpart, Bart De Wever, who made the issue of abortion a breaking point in the process on Saturday. formation of a federal government.
“This (the abortion) has nothing to do with the socio-economic stimulus government that our country so badly needs”, underlined the president of the Flemish liberals.
The House could be called to rule on Thursday on the bill co-signed by the socialists, the liberals, the ecologists, Défi and the PTB. The text thus provides that the period within which a voluntary termination of pregnancy can be carried out increases from 12 to 18 weeks of pregnancy, the period of reflection is reduced to 48 hours and the abortion is fully decriminalized, subject to a qualification of assault and battery if conditions are not met.
But the CD&V, the N-VA and the Vlaams Belang are fiercely opposed to this bill.
Mr. De Wever even made it a breaking point in the current negotiations for the formation of a so-called “Arizona” coalition at the federal level and bringing together the MR, the Open Vld, the CD&V – who sit in the current minority government – as well as N-VA, sp.a and cdH.
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