“Belgium is going to present the worst budget of most developed countries”, lamented the mayor of Antwerp, judging the budgetary agreement which, according to him, does not include “any fundamental reform” while we are in a difficult crisis situation. . “People are very worried regarding their future and they no longer feel that the political elite can protect them,” added the N-VA president.
Bart de Wever then claimed that the entire responsibility for the budget deficit was to be attributed to Vivaldi. According to him, “the Vivaldi had better stop there”. The government “The members of the government defend public spending because they know that the debts are not paid by them, but by the worker and the saver,” the Flemish nationalist got carried away.
“If Conner Rousseau pursues his coalitions with the PTB, he himself will break the cordon sanitaire”
Bart de Wever then spoke on Conner Rousseau’s announcement ten days ago that his party would end any coalition with the N-VA if it allied with the Vlaams Belang (extreme right) in 2024 “If he continues with these communists, it is he himself who breaks a sanitary cordon, insofar as such a cordon must exist”, affirmed the mayor of Antwerp, putting on the same footing extreme left and extreme right. “I’m waiting for the president of Vooruit to be consistent and for these coalitions to disappear.” Bart De Wever refers here to Vooruit’s coalitions with the PVDA (PTB) in Zelzate (East Flanders) and in the Antwerp district of Borgerhout.
The president of the N-VA repeated that a possible coalition with the Vlaams Belang depended in his eyes on an internal cleaning operation within this party. “I’m still waiting for change in this party. They go from one incident to another, which makes this party hard to go to. With his resentment, he always falls back into trouble. If they ever do this cleanup, then for me, it can be done. But the only ones who will decide that will be the members of the N-VA, and I don’t think that Conner Rousseau is a member of the N-VA”, added Bart De Wever.