Bouchez and Francken meet for a polite debate

The president of the MR and the deputy of the N-VA debated in Jurbise, in a crowded room. The gap is deep on the institutional. On the rest, it’s “I love you me neither”.


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JThursday evening in Jurbise, it is a long time not to put a liberal activist out. However, the town hall, called “Jacques Galant”, named after Jacqueline’s dad, will be full to host the long-announced debate between Georges-Louis Bouchez (MR) and Theo Francken (N-VA). The MR invites (blue is omnipresent), but it is the deputy-mayor who squeezes the clamps and slaps kisses to guests who had to register, you can never be too careful.

The drache did not discourage either the activists of Setca, the socialist union, whose red chasuble almost shines in the night, like the dress of the police horses, soaked to the hooves. “The zone manager told me that we will not take any risks”, justifies the deputy-mayor of the entity which set up this face to face announced as sulphurous between two sizes of Belgian politics, who do not don’t have their tongues out.




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