Walloon politicians turn to Bouchez: ‘We are more than …

On Friday, twenty women from the Walloon Parliament and the Walloon government sent a signal to MR President Georges-Louis Bouchez. Women from all political groups, including MR, posed in the corridors of the parliament in Namur for a photo with a clear message: “We are more than a quota.”

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The message then went to social media. The politicians denounce Bouchez’s unpleasant decisions in the appointment of the new MR ministers. He wanted to send outgoing federal minister Denis Ducarme to the Walloon government, where Valérie De Bue was informed that she could dispose of it.

But the party chairman had lost sight of the women’s quota. With the departure of De Bue, the statutory quota that one third of the Walloon government must be female would no longer be achieved. Result: De Bue finally remained in his post and Ducarme has to make do with the faction leadership in the House.

Musical chairs

The failed musical chairs could leave Minister De Bue feeling ‘saved’ by the quota. “We are more than a quota,” the group of Walloon politicians therefore encouraged her.