“Former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt Announces Retirement from Active Political Career”

2023-05-06 04:00:00

The former Prime Minister will not seek a new European mandate. No more than Philippe Lamberts, current co-president of the Greens. Pages are turning, in the Belgian delegation.

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Journalist at the World Service

By Véronique Lamquin

Published on 6/05/2023 at 06:00
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Quid of the 2024 elections? “I have already said that I will not run for a new mandate. I will not be on a list to be elected. Guy Verhofstadt announces, in an interview granted to the Time this Saturday, that he will put an end to his active political career next year. Unless, specifies the current MEP, that transnational lists are organized on a European scale. In which case, he would launch out, to capitalize on his notoriety, and because it would be “the realization of a dream for which he has been fighting for twenty years. The idea of ​​having some of the members of the European Parliament elected from a constituency common to the Twenty-Seven States is, for the time being, a matter of wishful thinking, the former Prime Minister is therefore living his last twelve months in the Brussels hemicycles and Strasbourg.

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