>**Olivier Maingain announced on Friday that he was leaving DéFI, a party that he himself led for 24 years. He is taking direct aim at President Sophie Rohonyi and is contesting the involvement of national parties in the formation of a Brussels government. He also announced plans to ‘re-found the party’.**
>‘Noting that Mrs Sophie Rohonyi (the president of DéFI, editor’s note) has become dependent on the MR by accepting its logic of placing Brussels negotiations under the control of the national parties, I note that she no longer defends the autonomy of the Brussels region. As a result, I am leaving Défi,’ said the mayor of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert on X. ‘I will announce my plan to re-found the party in fidelity to the convictions that I have always held with many activists and voters. I will be launching an appeal to this effect in the next few days.
>On Friday morning, Brussels formateur David Leisterh (MR) invited the presidents of the national parties to negotiate the formation of a Brussels government. This would bypass the Brussels negotiators appointed by these same parties. This initiative was strongly opposed by the founder and former president of DéFI. ‘It is not because Mr Leisterh is failing in his mission as a formateur that Brussels should be put under direct rule from the federal level. The MR is selling Brussels to the N-VA. As far as I know, the people of Brussels are not negotiating a majority in Flanders. The people of Brussels are your masters’, he declared three hours before announcing his departure.
>The PS, for its part, has already rejected this method, indicating that the PS’s interlocutor in Brussels is Ahmed Laaouej.
For people who aren’t up to speed with Brussels politics, this is like BDW leaving N-VA or Di Rupo leaving PS in order to create their own party. This will probably deal a death blow to a party that already lost more than 40% of it’s voters in the last election.
Ca fait longtemps qu il cherche un prétexte pour quitter defi je pense. Il a trouvé une occasion.
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>**Olivier Maingain announced on Friday that he was leaving DéFI, a party that he himself led for 24 years. He is taking direct aim at President Sophie Rohonyi and is contesting the involvement of national parties in the formation of a Brussels government. He also announced plans to ‘re-found the party’.**
>‘Noting that Mrs Sophie Rohonyi (the president of DéFI, editor’s note) has become dependent on the MR by accepting its logic of placing Brussels negotiations under the control of the national parties, I note that she no longer defends the autonomy of the Brussels region. As a result, I am leaving Défi,’ said the mayor of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert on X. ‘I will announce my plan to re-found the party in fidelity to the convictions that I have always held with many activists and voters. I will be launching an appeal to this effect in the next few days.
>On Friday morning, Brussels formateur David Leisterh (MR) invited the presidents of the national parties to negotiate the formation of a Brussels government. This would bypass the Brussels negotiators appointed by these same parties. This initiative was strongly opposed by the founder and former president of DéFI. ‘It is not because Mr Leisterh is failing in his mission as a formateur that Brussels should be put under direct rule from the federal level. The MR is selling Brussels to the N-VA. As far as I know, the people of Brussels are not negotiating a majority in Flanders. The people of Brussels are your masters’, he declared three hours before announcing his departure.
>The PS, for its part, has already rejected this method, indicating that the PS’s interlocutor in Brussels is Ahmed Laaouej.
For people who aren’t up to speed with Brussels politics, this is like BDW leaving N-VA or Di Rupo leaving PS in order to create their own party. This will probably deal a death blow to a party that already lost more than 40% of it’s voters in the last election.
Ca fait longtemps qu il cherche un prétexte pour quitter defi je pense. Il a trouvé une occasion.
Hopefully this dooms him into oblivion.
Seems like a bit of a hissy fit.
Autonomy of Brussels??
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