2023-10-26 07:50:00
Despite the harsh criticism from Gwendoline Rutten, the former president of the Flemish liberals, and Patrick Dewael, a historic figure of the party, the Open VLD would not implode, believes Alexia Bertrand at the microphone of LN24: “I was at the office of left on Monday and that was not the tone of the speech. ”
There’s a stampede at the Open VLD, Alexander De Croo’s party is taking on water from all sides
Lining up behind the party’s choice, the Secretary of State prefers to play it collective and salute the qualities of her colleagues. “We must welcome two things. On the one hand, the assumption of political responsibility by the Minister of Justice. It’s still not common (to see a minister resign, Editor’s note),” she emphasizes. “And on the other hand, the expertise of Paul Van Tigchelt was unanimously welcomed by the party. He is a magistrate: he knows the world of security extremely well. He is also someone who was the boss of OCAM and who worked in the cabinet of Vincent Van Quickenborne. It is therefore immediately operational. When you have a security crisis and you’re at level 3, you want someone who can take control right away. And I believe he demonstrated it yesterday in Parliament. ”
The list of defections grows at the Open-VLD: Goedele Liekens, federal deputy and former Miss Belgium, will no longer run in 2024
Far from being at the top of the list of favorites to take over the position of Vincent Van Quickenborne, Paul Van Tigchelt has already made an impression yesterday Wednesday by estimating that the attack of Monday October 16, 2023 is the consequence of “a fault which was committed at the Brussels Public Prosecutor’s Office”. A statement that made some waves. “What he wanted to say is that everything cannot be attributed to a lack of resources: it is also a question of management, a question of control. We need to put procedures in place,” tried to explain Alexia Bertrand who, moreover, assures that she never wanted to recover Justice.
According to Open VLD, “5.6 million euros released for the Brussels Public Prosecutor’s Office, this weekend alone, in addition to 3 million euros over the last two years”.
Returning to the IMF report which pointed out certain Belgian weaknesses, Alexia Bertrand estimated that “those who were slipping were Flanders and Brussels”, in relation to European commitments.
Watch the entire “Café sans Filter” show in the video at the top of the article and on LN24.be.
1698315517
#Alexia #Bertrand #Flanders #Brussels #slipped #commitments