The MR would, however, have some reservations with the candidacy of Madame Milquet who is still concerned by legal proceedings linked to the time when she was a federal minister. He is accused of having used members of his cabinet to lead his electoral campaign. The case is a bit old. But, for liberals, this situation remains prohibitive.
Under this legislature, it will also be necessary to replace the current general administrator of RTBF (since 2002), Jean-Paul Philippot, labeled PS. A position that the management of the MR would like to see occupied by someone close to them. There must therefore be a deal between the two partners.
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“The Prince’s Deed”
The former president of the RTBF board of directors, Jean-François Raskin, reacted to The Free after these revelations. For him, it is false to say that the appointment of the general administrator of RTBF is political. “Where I am more perplexed is when I read that there would be a political agreement to share the designations between the presidency and the position of general administrator. If we can obviously understand that the mandates of administrators in a public service organization are entrusted following an examination of the applications by Parliament, the function of manager is entrusted to a person following a long journey and a very rigorous and very strict engagement procedure: call for applications, submission of a project, committee of experts made up of bosses, media specialists (including from abroad), hearings at the CSA, assessment. A procedure which has also been enriched over the years. We do not designate the general administrator of RTBF by the act of the prince”explains the man who also directed Ihecs.
Certainly, for a number of years, the appointment of managers in the Walloon civil service and the Wallonia-Brussels Federation has been subject to strict procedures which may involve an “independent” jury. However, at the end of the day, it is the government which decides, without necessarily respecting the classification established by the jury.
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Information obtained, RTBF constitutes an important totem for the liberals who will not give up. The opportunity to influence an institution whose editorial line has often been criticized by certain party leaders, the president in the lead, is too good. All of this does not of course prevent us from appointing someone competent.
