2023-12-14 05:35:00
“We just found out.” “We don’t know where it comes from.” The leak surprised more than one within the Brussels PS. Le Soir announced that the president of the Brussels PS Ahmed Laaouej would be head of the list in the regional elections in May 2024 and that Caroline Désir would take the head of the Federal list for the district of Brussels.
Confirmed by a PS executive at La DH, the news falls two days before a party congress supposed to announce the first two places for the two elections, in each province, which does not fit well with the usual communication of the PS authorities. Usually, the Brussels PS organizes its party office and then validates its proposal at the congress. Here, none of that.
Some believe that the leak was organized by Ahmed Laaouej himself, just to put pressure on a negotiation that was more complicated than expected. From a personal point of view, Ahmed Laaouej’s arrival in Brussels seems logical. The future of Koekelbergeois at the Federal looked bleak. He would have lost his place as leader of the PS group in the Chamber, promised to a Walloon and his disagreement with the president of the PS Paul Magnette called into question his possible presence within the federal government. All that remained was the management of the commune of Koekelberg, far too meager for such an appetite.
However, the news shuffles a lot of cards within the Brussels socialist party. Already, she is sending Minister-President Rudi Vervoort into early retirement even though he had announced, last September on LN24, that he was a candidate for his own succession. The current minister-president of Brussels might become president of the Brussels Parliament, but a position would still have to be found for the current one, Rachid Madrane. Would this take Marie Arena’s place in Europe?
A bet or chaos
For a well-informed socialist, Ahmed Laaouej will only succeed in this bet, which would have resulted from a strong passage, on the condition of having the support of the party’s leaders. “But he’s been trying to destabilize these big names for five years! He cut off Kir’s head, caused divisions among the socialists in the City of Brussels, the same in Molenbeek, he can no longer set foot in Saint-Gilles…”
Number two, on the regional list, might be the ointment for these tenors. Delphine Chabbert would be one of the last possible profiles. This choice has a price: that of Nawal Ben Hamou (the PS does not want to risk two names from immigration in the lead), or of Karine Lalieux who had, basically, to present herself to the Brussels municipal elections to take over the function if Philippe Close “went up” to the Region.
”The right thinks that households must pay for the crisis. To solve the problem of public finances, we must tax capital”
“If Laaouej fails to mobilize the key players, it would be chaos,” continues our source. The popular communes live on regional subsidies. If the right takes the seat of Minister-President, they will no longer arrive.” And following going from five Brussels representatives in the Chamber in 2014 to two today, it’s difficult to imagine how to continue your political career following these two setbacks.
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