2023-09-03 16:17:00
In 280 days precisely, we vote! First for the federal, regional and European in June 2024, and then for the municipalities a few months later, in October. Let’s take stock of the political landscape with our “Campaign Diary” of the week.
Campaign notebook, episode 2. And we start it with the debates of the week. The first comes to us from Bob Dermagne, alias Pierre-Yves, the Socialist Minister of the Economy. The man who whispers in the ear of joints and who wants to legalize cannabis in Belgium. “Yes, I smoked cannabis when I was a student. We know it, it’s an open secret, cannabis circulates in Belgian society like never before. So I prefer to organize, legalize, control“, he said on our plate.
The president of the Reform Movement was its most virulent detractor. “It’s really not the time to send a signal of decriminalization, a signal of laxity in relation to that. Excuse me, but you’re like a wreck, you still have little reaction, it’s still not something to advocate or trivialize“, lambasted Georges-Louis Bouchez.
No tax reform in sight: the rations
Let Bob Dermagne lead the second debate of the week: money and tax reform. After the failure of negotiations this summer, the new season begins with its share of declarations. Opinions vary.
Jean-Marc Nollet, co-president of Ecolo: “A tax reform for Belgians before the elections“.
Paul Magnette, president of the PS: “There was a first round in July, and I believe that we must continue to say that we must increase low and medium wages in Belgium. For that, we need tax reform, and we have to pay the richest and the multinationals“.
Alexander De Croo, Prime Minister, of the Open VLD (Flemish Liberals): “We can’t do everything in our country. I think that for the moment, it is clear that our budgetary trajectory does not allow us to carry out this kind of tax reform at the same time“.
Maximes Prévot, president of the Committed (former CDH): “We have a Prime Minister who has just said that it’s over, thank you and goodbye, we were unable to reach an agreement before the summer. The Belgians witness this poor spectacle. I let the majority partners finally continue what they do best, which is to kick each other in the face.“.
Mr. State Bonds
Speaking of money, the man of the week got a lot of it. Vincent Van Peteghem, Minister of Finance from the CD&V party, has become “Mister State Bonds”. Its vouchers have raised more than 22 billion euros. A record. “Yes, it’s really a success“, welcomed Vincent Van Peteghem.
The Minister of Finance had experienced failure with his tax reform which had not been adopted. The Flemish social-Christian is therefore making headlines once more and this will undoubtedly be very useful for his party as the elections approach.
The network campaign
Finally, a campaign diary would be nothing without its images of the week on social networks. We start with a story of books, pastry and Georges-Louis Bouchez.
The signing session of the president of the MR ended with a tartar. Georges-Louis Bouchez reacted well following a little cleaning up. “I find it very unfortunate because the pie looked good“, he confided on social networks. He filed a complaint.
Finally, to be completely complete, note that we have a new deputy for a few months, until the 2024 elections. This is the second image of the week: Robin Bruyère’s swearing-in. He was a railway worker, he is now a PTB deputy. And as you can see (or not), he will replace Thierry Warmoes. Hoping that the parliamentary services improve the automatic framing of the cameras…
They have a little time: the elections are in 280 days.
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