2023-04-17 07:00:00
Manu Disabato was the guest of LN Matin this Monday, the day after the organization of a congress on the acceleration of the ecological transition of the Walloon economy. For MP Écolo, “ecology is not only the future of the economy, but also the present of the economy”. Nearly 300 business owners and entrepreneurs took part in the congress organized with its co-president Jean-Marc Nollet and the two Greens were able to notice that “these people are already moving” to enter into the ecological transition and reduce their pressure on the environment. environment at large, but that these companies need public support. “That’s why we (Ecolo, editor’s note) have in our proposals aid, subsidies, support that will help companies enter the ecological transition”, declared Manu Disabato.
He also insisted on the fact that this ecological change will increase work opportunities: “It is estimated that we will be able to create, by 2030, 80,000 jobs in the transition sector. So we see to what extent ecology really is the future of the economy”.
Continuing on employment, Manu Disabato returned to the remarks of Bernard Clerfayt, held on LN24 last Friday. The latter, speaking about unemployment in Brussels, said that in the capital, “many women are still in a Mediterranean model […] a family model where Mr works and Mrs stays at home to take care of the children”. “I find it insulting to women. I myself am the son of an Italian immigrant and I can tell you that women work, have a responsibility, that they want to participate. It’s a bit caricatural on the part of Bernard Clerfayt”, reacted the Walloon deputy, before adding: “There is a need to bring more women into the scientific, mathematical, digital professions and there is a series of construction trades that must be feminized”.
As a former member of the Bureau of the Walloon Parliament, from which he resigned last December following the scandal of clerk Frédéric Janssens, Manu Disabato expressed only one regret about his former position: that of having trusted the clerk. “We should have checked things a lot more. That’s why I resigned, I had a moral responsibility”.
Recently, a new case has once again tarnished the image of the Walloon Parliament: the discovery of excessive expenditure for equipment and furniture intended to furnish the House of Parliamentarians in Namur. A coffee machine at more than 2,000 euros, chairs at more than 3,000 euros per piece, a sofa at 15,000 euros… According to the contract signed in February 2021, the total cost would be 2.1 million euros.
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But how was the former Bureau, in place at the time of the signing of this contract, able to validate such expenditure? “The details of the prices did not pass to the Bureau, we saw the public market with the different criteria of the administration. I asked about the price, because there was a difference between the two offers shown. And I was told that the materials were really of a higher quality, and that in the long term, it cost less. That was the main argument. But let’s be clear, I never heard of the purchase of a sofa at 15,000 or 18,000 euros,” said Manu Disabato.
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