The ex-president of DéFI notes that some French speakers “a little bleating“see no harm in talking about the confederalism proposed by the president of the N-VA.”Do they realize the consequence, what it means” Confederalism will, according to Olivier Maingain, permanently weaken the budgetary and financial capacities of Wallonia and Brussels. He also believes that, if the French-speaking institutions are in difficulty, “it’s partly because the francophone parties who negotiated the financing laws negotiated them very badly.” He recalls that when he fought the last state reform (the sixth), “I was the only president of a French-speaking party to say all the dangers“Today, few French-speaking parties that have signed them defend them, he notes.
“This permanent blackmail of the independence of Flanders, of confederalism, impresses certain French speakers. And I say it’s time to reverse that logic. We have to raise our heads a little on the French-speaking side. And stop believing that you have to submit to the last institutional requirement of Flanders, to the last institutional blackmails of certain Flemish political leaders.”
Faced with “this permanent blackmail”Olivier Maingain suggests that French speakers take the president of the N-VA at his word and “tell it to Mr. De Wever, but stingy“. And to ask, in the form of a specific and decision-making referendum, the Flemish voters, if they want the independence of Flanders. The question that would be asked: “Should the Flemish Region be an independent state? Yes NoThis would help verify voter support for the independence proposals, explaining the consequences of this choice.
Recall that it is not not possible to organize a referendum (decisional and binding) in Belgium.