Belgian Election Victor Picks Negotiator for Flemish Coalition Talks
Looming budget woes may encourage faster government formation.
Looming budget woes may encourage faster government formation.
The nationalist NV-A now has a clear mandate to lead government formation talks.
Vlaams Belang, now topping the polls among Dutch-speaking voters by a large margin, has set Flemish independence on the agenda.
“Even though the Flemish region might be old, the Flemish people have not yet matured politically; we have just got on to the political stage, learning to assert ourselves.”
A party spokesman downplayed any strain with the ECR as pre-election rumors.
“In Italy we can clearly see what happens when the Right comes together. And when Right parties compromise with one another and present themselves to the electorate, you see that quite clearly, they gain an absolute majority.”
N-VA MP Sander Loones notes that rulings on migration and climate in particular are affected, “where sometimes judges rather than politicians determine policy.”
The fact that Vlaams Belang is the largest party in successive polls offers unprecedented opportunities, including the formation of a right-wing government in Belgium, like in Italy, MP Filip De Winter told The European Conservative.
Given that Bart De Wever will not allow Flanders to impoverish itself over the continued propping up of Wallonia, he sees confederalism as the sole option; through this, more authority—and responsibility—will flow to the separate regions.
Vlaams Belang Chairman Tom Van Grieken’s name came up third in the list of those politicians by whom the Flemish feel best represented.
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