2023-06-15 19:37:00
”It is an open secret. It is also my fight. I have a lot of trouble dealing with this”, recognizes the president of the Flemish socialist party Vooruit. In a 14-minute video, released late Thursday afternoon on social media, the young talent from the Flemish left recognizes that his sexual orientation pushes him towards both men and women. He admits that he has never spoken about it publicly until now for fear of the negative reactions that such an announcement could cause. In the film that was recorded a few weeks ago, the wonderboy of the political class Flemish explains that she hesitated a lot before she fully clarified her sexual orientation. “I got to the point where it paralyzes me. It’s a daily battle for me. I don’t know what I am. We put a label on you, it’s not pleasant”he acknowledges.
dreaded fight
Apparently relaxed during this interview with journalist Eric Goens which was filmed in a very zen setting (we can see a poster of Nieuport behind him), the 30-year-old says that he wanted, for a long time, to follow the example of the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte which we do not know if he lives as a couple.
Conner Rousseau’s lawyer speaks out on accusations against him: ‘It looks like a witch hunt against Mr. Rousseau’
But why does Conner Rousseau state his sexual orientation today, one year before the election? He himself recognizes in the video that he would have preferred to talk about it… after the ballot. But he clarified in the process that the rumors concerning his sexual orientation were becoming too insistent. “I know what people think of me without them saying it“, he says. “As a teenager it was all a well-kept secret”, recognizes the boss of Vooruit who continues: “I played tennis well but I was not good at football. In reality, I wanted to dance. Mom thought it was a good idea. Dad was disappointed. At school, I felt harassed sometimes, I felt alone. I was 14 then. One day, some took pictures of me in the shower after a mountain bike ride. These photos have been circulated at school. I then stopped dancing.”
The VRT could not question him
But journalists report other rumors – stubborn but unverified – about the private life of the president of Vooruit. People said they felt uncomfortable in his presence. We are talking about “inappropriate behaviors”. In a first case, it is a question of a young man of 17 who would have been in contact with Conner Rousseau in West Flanders. But the prosecution closed the case without further action. Another case was reported in the province of Antwerp. It would be, according to the VRT, a mother who was worried about certain messages that Rousseau would have sent to her 17-year-old son. Extensive investigations, we are told, are underway within The last news, VTM and VRT. Via Belga, Christine Mussche, Conner Rousseau’s lawyer, confirmed the dismissal by the West Flanders Public Prosecutor’s Office and added that “another complaint would also have been filed in Antwerp with equally false allegations, but we do not have not yet been formally informed. It smacks of a witch hunt against Mr. Rousseau”.
The VRT refuses to broadcast the video of Conner Rousseau’s coming out and explains
Note that the VRT wanted to question Conner Rousseau after the broadcast of the video where he speaks about his sexual orientation. Faced with the refusal of the politician, the channel decided not to broadcast these images which had also been offered at the start against payment.
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