Even though the State Secretary for Asylum and Migration, Sammy Mahdi, presents himself as the ideological helmsman of the CD&V, he will not ‘pull down’ its chairman Joachim Coens (CD&V).
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‘Joachim Coen (CD&V chairman, ed.) must know that he can count on me’, said CD&V politician and State Secretary for Asylum and Migration Sammy Mahdi at the end of his interview. The Seventh Day.
He came in the VRT program his new book From hollow to full introduce. Mahdi wants to shake up his party with this book. The timing of that book is remarkable. In December, Coens organizes an ideological CD&V congress that urgently needs to give the party a new impetus. Mahdi now explicitly presents himself as the party’s ideological helmsman. Two years ago, in the presidential elections, Mahdi narrowly lost to Coens.
CD&V will organize new presidential elections next year. When him in The Seventh Day whether he had the ambition to participate again as a candidate for president, Mahdi answered not. “I will support Joachim Coens in the renewal of the party,” Mahdi said. “Anything and anyone who tries to sow division between me and Joachim will not succeed because I agree very well with Joachim. I will push and pull in all directions, but not to bring down our chairman.’
In an interview with The standard last Friday he had already made it clear that he is ‘trying to put the party back on the map as State Secretary for Asylum and Migration’.
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