2023-07-13 13:53:50
But why revive this short-lived list? Between the Vlaams Belang and the N-VA, it is not very clear what Jean-Marie Dedecker would have to gain by returning to the tatami with his ultraliberal party – even libertarian – with very Flemish accents, wonders Baptiste Hupin. To try to understand it, it is necessary to return according to him on the political career of the ex-judoka. A career during which he spared no one. A trajectory of a free electron, allergic to party discipline. Dedecker, now a deputy stamped N-VA, began his career in 1999 at the VLD. Before being ejected (in 2004, he had yet been a candidate for the post of party president). But following declaring that he wanted to put an end to the cordon sanitaire, having wanted to face his party on a dissident list in the municipal elections and to sow discord among the liberals, he was thrown out. Dedecker will then be courted by the Vlaams Belang, but it is the N-VA who will grab it. Only, there too, he is fired. Remember, at the time, the N-VA was in cartel with the CD&V. The president of the Flemish Christian Democrats was Yves Leterme. “Mr. 800,000 votes” (as it was nicknamed at the time) will refuse to welcome this totally uncontrollable element into its ranks. “My party is not a Spanish inn” declared Yves Leterme.
Still missed therefore for Jean-Marie Dedecker who will have been courted by all the parties which were not on the left. Never mind, since no one wanted him, the wanderer of the Flemish right ended up creating his own list, the famous “List Dedecker”.
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