Brussels PS wants to have candidates run for Dutch-language seats too in 2029 regional elections

by Leiegast

13 comments
  1. Lol, een Waal, en dan nog een socialist, die Nederlands zal spreken.

  2. **The PS is serious about its plan to submit a list in the 2029 elections also in the Dutch language group. This choice is motivated by the direction Vooruit is going in and the decision of chairman Conner Rousseau to pull the plug on the left majority in Brussels, but in the background the PS also wants to prevent Team Fouad Ahidar from growing further.**

    The Brussels formation remains hopeless, yet the next elections are already in the back of some people’s minds. At the PS, for example: the French-speaking socialists are making no secret of the fact that they also want to submit a list on the Dutch-speaking side in the 2029 regional elections.

    According to a senior source, Brussels PS chief Ahmed Laaouej toyed with that idea soon after the June 9, 2024 elections. The fact that Team Fouad Ahidar won three seats out of nowhere, with positions with which the PS also draws votes, clearly inspired Laaouej.

    **Socialist alternative**

    Especially now that Vooruit has blown up the leftist majority that Laaouej was brooding on, the PS is out for revenge. According to a PS source, there is a demand among Dutch-speaking Brussels residents for a socialist alternative to Vooruit.

    “After all, that party considers its alliance with the N-VA more important than its ties with the PS,” it is said.

    “Moreover, many Dutch-speaking Vooruit militants do not agree with the choice of the national party leadership not to give the leftist majority in Brussels a chance.”

    **Threatening letter**

    According to political journalist Wouter Verschelden’s newsletter W16, Laaouej has made his plans known in a threatening letter to Vooruit.

    The PS is not only thinking of playing a role in the Dutch language group, but also of banning Vooruit candidates from its lists in the next municipal elections. In that case, it would be a tough task for Dutch-speaking socialists to still get elected in Brussels municipal councils.

    “Our aldermen continue to work with the PS in the municipalities,’ the Brussels branch of Vooruit stated today. ‘It is logical that it is all still a bit emotional now.”

  3. Stealing from the french speaking communities isn’t enough?

  4. Good, let more French speaking parties do it so people realize how stupid this system is.

  5. Votes from Vooruit will be wasted on PS that will never reach the kiesdrempel, sounds like a great plan!

  6. Time to introduce language proficiency tests then I suppose?

  7. The PS is the biggest promoter of the Flemish nationalist movement. It may or may not be intentional of them.

  8. Belgium would already been better off without the PS. And N-VA can go fuck off as well.

  9. Looking forward to a list of nobodies, because if they already appeared on a PS list, they can’t be registered as Dutch. (Ahidar was forced to register a Dutch list because he appeared on a Vooruit list before.)

  10. There shouldn’t be any language assigned seats in the first place.

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