Hugo Coveliers (ex-Vlaams Belang – Vlott) goes to court to keep pension bonus: “500 euros less per month? I don’t accept that”

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1. Sorry for the HLN article. The DS article is in a [thread of articles](https://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20240221_93241858), so I can’t link to that article specifically. But here are some quotes from the DS article.

   >Ex-MP Hugo Coveliers (77) is going to court. He does not accept that his monthly pension is reduced by 500 euros net, because it exceeds the legal ceiling of 7,813 euros gross. […]

   >[…]

   >The case will be heard in the labor court in Antwerp on June 20. Coveliers says he is right in his shoes. The European Convention on Human Rights states that the pension is your property, and the state can only reduce it through an expropriation that is registered in a law, he says. So not via an administrative decision, as has now happened to the former parliamentarians.

2. Schaamteloze politiekers. Wie verdient er hier 7800 bruto per maand? Bijna niemand. En voor de politiekers is dit onvoldoende als pensioen.

   Let that sink in.

3. [Coveliers began his career with the VLD, but left there in 2004 with slamming doors. With his own party VLOTT, he went to the voters in 2006 in cartel with Vlaams Belang. With success, because afterwards they were seated together in the Antwerp city council. There he forged a close bond with local leader Filip Dewinter (VB). To this day, Coveliers is Dewinter’s adviser.](https://archive.ph/xg2mB)

4. Ook slechte reclame voor zijn voormalige partij vlak voor de verkiezingen, maar dat zal hem wel niet kunnen schelen.

5. De man is nooit lid geweest van Vlaams Belang. Hij is lid geweest van, in chronologische volgorde, VU, VLD en VLOTT. Beweren dat hij lid was van het Vlaams Belang is beweren dat Yves Leterme lid was van NVA, neen dus.

6. Never trust a guy with a fucking terrible goatee. What the fuck is that. Looks like he’s puking up a dead mouse.