This dossier, which attracted the attention of all the Belgian media, is back on the front of the stage. It was our colleagues from Sudinfo who collected the first words of Jean-Claude Marcourt, three months following his resignation.
The former president of the Walloon Parliament is finally breaking his silence. “Three months allowed me to get out of the emotion and come back to my senses a little. I was hurt because I found it unfair. It was not a pleasant moment to live, neither for me nor for my relatives. Today, I digested but you really have to have thick leather in politics.
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Despite his resignation, the socialist remains on his positions. “I do not recognize any fault, neither on my part nor on that of the office. I simply resigned to try to restore a more serene climate in parliament”, he explains to our colleagues at Sudinfo.
After the media storm suffered by Jean-Claude Marcourt, the politician does not betray his party or its president (note, Paul Magnette). “I have always been loyal to all my party presidents and I will not change today. I turned the page but the institutions really have to question themselves regarding this pressure from social networks.
Asked regarding the famous trip to Dubai, the interested party defends himself tooth and nail. “I remind you that I did not want to go to Dubai, but it was the majority group leaders who insisted that I go. The only way not to spend was not to go. But they said to me: go ahead! And in the middle of the Universal Exhibition, the costs of planes and hotels were unfortunately incompressible.”
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