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Belgian Government Has Fallen (Again)
04/26/2010 :: King Albert II has accepted the resignation of the federal Government on Monday evening. The Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme (Flemish Christian Democrat) had offered the king the resignation of his cabinet last Thursday after the Flemish Liberal party had left the federal government. In only three years Leterme has offered his resignation five times to the king: twice as formateur, thrice as prime minister (twice accepted).
Since september 2008 the federal government does not have a majority in Flanders. “Federal policy (think about Justice, Asylum and Immigration) has barely any legitimacy in Flanders and that applies especially to sensitive issues between the communities,” says professor Bart Maddens (De Morgen, 26 April 2010). Indeed, issues like Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde.
Alexandra Colen, MP for the Vlaams Belang, wrote last week: “Leterme resigned after the umpteenth deadline had expired within which he had promised to settle the issue of the unconstitional electoral district of Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde (generally referred to as BHV). All that is needed to settle this issue is a vote in parliament. At the committee level this vote has already been passed, with a majority voting to separate the Flemish (linguistically and territorially) towns of Halle and Vilvoorde from the electoral district of the bilingual capital of Brussels. To prevent the vote from being passed in the general assembly, the francophone parties of Wallonia and Brussels employed a number of procedures, buying time for the government to negotiate a “solution” where the Flemish would be put under pressure to make political, financial or territorial concessions to the francophones in exchange for a redrawing of BHV.”
Instead of simply voting the BHV issue in parliament, Flemish Christian Democrats and Liberal Democrats have walked the Francophone path of “a negotiated solution” and seemed to have been prepared to indecent compromises. Indeed, the BHV issue was not the reason but only provided the occasion for the Flemish Liberal party to leave the Leterme cabinet.
Despite the fall of the federal goverment, parliament can still act. The Vlaams Belang urges the Flemish parties to keep their promises and vote the BHV issue at once so that the coming elections are constitutional and won’t end in chaos. The current political crisis demonstrates once again the total bankruptcy of the Belgian political system. For the Vlaams Belang it is crystal clear: Belgium has no value whatsoever for Flanders.
Read more here on what BHV is all about.
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