2023-05-26 06:40:00
On Tuesday, the daily HLN indicated to everyone’s surprise that the best paid agent in Belgium was Rachid Madrane, the president of the Brussels Parliament who would have received 243,275 euros gross in 2022. Information that the politician considers not to be quite correct. “First of all, I didn’t choose my function and I didn’t choose my salary, which is fixed by law,” the socialist immediately launched. “I confess to you that I wonder regarding the origin and the accuracy of the figures that are announced because I have not yet made my tax return for the year 2022.”
Rachid Madrane then wonders regarding the way of doing things for the journalist who put forward these figures. “I was on the Cumuléo site where you can see all the salaries and I was able to see, for example, that Jan Jambon was at 255,623 euros”, launches the parliamentarian who pulls out a printed sheet with several salaries. “It is therefore higher than what you earn”, Martin Buxant then replies to him, who maintains that Rachid Madrane would therefore not be the highest paid politician in Belgium.
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According to the socialist, this information published by a Dutch-language daily is part of a much more general problem: a Brussels Bashing coming from Flanders to Brussels. “Flanders comes regularly to tell us that in Brussels we are badly managed, that we don’t know how to manage, that we have too many elected officials,… […]. Flanders forgets that it is because it asked for special allowances for Dutch-speakers in Brussels that the model (Editor’s note: politics) has become a little more complicated.
For Rachid Madrane, Flanders simply has a problem with the capital of Belgium. “I can’t stand a certain Flanders coming to give lessons in Brussels anymore. In reality, their problem is that they don’t like their capital.”
”We will have to buy a lot of Pampers at the PTB”
Regarding the future policy of the Brussels regional parliament, Rachid Madrane says he is open to all coalitions but does not want to project himself until there are the results of the elections, he who does not do any “political fiction” as he affirms. However, the socialist prefers to warn the PTB. “For the communists and therefore the PTB, it will be necessary to buy them a lot of Pampers before the party dares to engage in politics because the communists are always in dispute and permanent protest. They dare not confront the exercise of power. Twice they were invited to power and they refused. I think they are therefore afraid of the exercise of power, it is obviously more comfortable to stay on the balcony”, estimates Rachid Madrane.
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Following the Metro 3 fiasco, the president of the Brussels parliament believes that the federal government must support the Brussels-Capital region in its projects. “It is in the interest of our country. I believe that the federal government must finance part of the metro 3 project. It is an essential element for the development of our region.”
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