2023-09-27 11:57:21
The PTB opposition in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation on Wednesday rejected the plea of Minister-President Pierre-Yves Jeholet (MR) for better control of the institution’s expenses in which the Marxist group sees rather a desire for “austerity”.
Instead of savings, the FWB on the contrary needs refinancing to support education, early childhood, culture or sports, believes the radical left opposition. “Savings are not the solution but the problem,” insists Alice Bernard, head of the PTB group in the FWB parliament.
“And contrary to what Pierre-Yves Jeholet explains, there is money in Belgium. The PTB supports, like a very large majority of the population, a tax on millionaires which should, for example, make it possible to increase the national education budget by one billion euros,” according to the elected official.
“Minister Jeholet clearly does not live in the same world as the working class when we listen to his austerity proposals. In schools, working conditions have deteriorated due to the shortage of teachers and too high a number of students per class, but Mr. Jeholet wants to further degrade the attractiveness of the profession by attacking salaries and rights to the pension”, denounces the Marxist opposition.
“It calls for the creation of 5,000 places in nurseries, but does not say that since 2019 there are a total of 770 fewer places and that more than 15,000 are missing to meet the needs of parents. He highlights the refinancing of 80 million for higher education, but has clearly not heard the university rectors who recently explained that student precariousness has never been so great and that funding per student continues to increase. decrease to the detriment of young people and the quality of education,” adds the MP.
Faced with what she describes as “repeated attacks (from the minister-president) against our youth and our schools”, Ms. Bernard was also surprised on Wednesday by the lack of reaction from the PS and Ecolo, the two partners of majority of Mr. Jeholet. And the elected official asks: “How is it possible that left-wing parties do not react to it? “.
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