2023-12-22 05:30:00
For once, Bouchez’s intervention almost made the Mons mayor smile. “By tabling this motion aimed at banning religious signs in the Mons administration, he was clearly targeting the Muslim community,” explains Nicolas Martin. This motion was tabled to echo the situation encountered in Anderlecht.” In the Brussels municipality, it was in fact decided to study the authorization to wear convictional signs, which made the MR scream. Except that in Mons, the new municipal work regulations already provide for the ban on these convictional signs. “The PS-Écolo majority applies the principle of neutrality in the administration to which it values.”
Convictional signs in Anderlecht
Georges-Louis Bouchez therefore left with his motion under his arm. Under the disapproving gaze of the socialist mayor of Mons. “They were trying to import into Wallonia by submitting this type of motion in several municipalities,” argues Nicolas Martin. This question arises in Brussels, but not here. By doing this, Georges-Louis Bouchez wants to divide the population.” Especially “since he himself broke this principle of neutrality by celebrating a marriage with a mask on which it was written ‘proud to be liberal’. It’s hypocrisy.” Let us point out that at the time, Bouchez said he wore this mask just following the celebration.
Did Georges-Louis Bouchez carry a sign of conviction?
In any case, for the mayor, “this maneuver is a desire to create problems where there are none”.
On stunning, he is not in phase with the Brussels PS
But Nicolas Martin is not content with lecturing the president of the MR. He also targets his own party, and particularly his Brussels federation which takes a completely different view on convictional signs. “I am a defender of neutrality and secularism,” he said, “it is for this reason in particular that I joined the PS. The reality of one municipality is not the other. I can therefore imagine that in Brussels, a municipal agent who showed signs of conviction, before it became a public debate, does not understand that things are changing. In Mons, the question does not arise.”
And on the fact that his party voted in the Brussels Parliament once morest the stunning of animals as part of ritual slaughter, while it had done the opposite in the Walloon Parliament, we feel the mayor of Mons is more annoyed. “I clearly defend stunning, in fact I was a Walloon MP when we voted for it. I said within the PS that this is a rule that I would have liked to see applied everywhere.”
Who voted once morest stunning?
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