If the main object of the Brussels municipal council was the vote on the budget this Monday evening, it all the same began with a political parenthesis. Municipal councilor Zahour Loulaji leaves her role as independent municipal councilor and joins the benches of the Brussels Reform Movement, bringing the number of liberal seats to nine in the capital.
Little surprise, the history of Zahour Loulaji who, three years ago almost to the day, left the local branch of… PTB. An unusual political contrast that she justifies. “I made the choice of my heart, that of a group in harmony with my beliefs and values. All my life I have worked for solidarity. I am convinced today that we must do everything possible to fight once morest poverty and all that results from it.” She continues, following the advice, “I paid attention for three years, Ecolo and other parties offered me to join them, II wanted to sit down and look gently, before finally setting her sights on the Liberals who present, according to her, “the most political coherence”.
The new liberal municipal councilor marks her first speech with an amusing slip, she thanks the members of her party and its president… Georges-Louis Michel. After the council, the new Liberal confides that she did not hear that she was wrong.
The Brussels Liberals are therefore making their third transfer during this legislature, following welcoming Bertin Mampaka and Mie-Jeanne Nyanga-Lumbala in September 2020.
The transfer of Zahour Loulaji did not fail to amuse the council gathered in person. “You are joining a democratic group, I congratulate you. You will have to not break the sanitary cordon”, allows the chairman of the council, Mohamed Ouriaghli (PS), in reference to the controversy of the liberal president who recently broke this sanitary cordon.
Zahour Loulaji concludes on a humorous note, “only idiots don’t change their minds”.
