2024-02-15 19:04:00
Friday evening, the Brussels PS will finalize its lists for the Chamber and for the Region. If the leading pairs are already known, the unknown persists for the rest of the two lists. Several names are circulating, but the Brussels federation of socialists wants to keep the surprise until the last moment.
As a reminder, it is the current Minister of Education Caroline Désir who will draw the federal list, followed by the Brussels deputy and acting mayor of Evere Ridouane Chahid. For third place, it was said at one time that it would be given to former community minister Fadila Laanan, 10,385 votes in preference in 2019. It is said today that this will not be the case. Could the cocaine-addicted setbacks of his son, employed at Désir, have worked against him? The Anderlechtoise is expected on the regional list.
Fourth place should go to the mayor of the City of Brussels, Philippe Close, who had 6,230 votes in 2019 by pushing the regional list. The socialists would like to make him minister for a sovereign function, such as the Interior. The mayorship of the City would then be vested in Karine Lalieux, current Federal Minister of Pensions and number two on the 2024 regional list.
Like what the environmentalist (Ecolo-Groen), social-Christian (Les Engagés-CD&V) and communist (PTB-PVDA) families are doing and what the liberals could do (MR-Open VLD), the socialist family will present a common list in Brussels for the Chamber. The Vooruit figure who will be highest placed on the list will be Anderlecht alderwoman Bieke Comer. On Thursday, we did not yet know his ranking.
The very popular and publicized Pascal Smet will remain in second place on the Vooruit list for the Region, where he has already announced his intention to run for the presidency of parliament. He will be behind Ans Persoons, who replaced him as Secretary of State for Urban Planning after IranGate.
In the region, the PS has already chosen the group leader in the Chamber and the president of the Brussels federation Ahmed Laaouej for first place, followed by Karine Lalieux. Internally, it is said that third place can only go to Rudi Vervoort, Minister-President of Brussels. The fourth would be reserved for Nawal Ben Hamou, Secretary of State for Equal Opportunities.
Fifth place was planned for Rachid Madrane, but the president of the Brussels parliament decided not to run in the regional or federal elections. The man with 10,833 preferred votes was disgusted by the method with which the places were negotiated by what he called the “club of six” (Laaouej, Désir, Chahid, Lalieux, Close and Vervoort).
Finally, on Thursday, the idea was circulating that judge Luc Hennart could join the PS lists. Surprising for some activists, interesting for others, the idea was however neither confirmed nor denied by the party. Luc Hennart has a socialist past since he was the husband of the late Anne-Sylvie Mouzon, a leading specialist in constitutional law at the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. “He is more of the old Marxist school, he is less on the Jean Jaurès line than President Paul Magnettte, but why not?” analyzes a Brussels elected official.
The latter, however, denied the information. “You teach me something,” he replied when we pointed out to him that his name was mentioned for the Brussels lists.
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