The debate, Thursday evening on the set of the VRT, between Mr. Bouchez and the president of Vlaams Belang Tom Van Grieken constitutes a rupture of the sanitary cord and the rules to which the MR itself subscribed, repeated Mr. Magnette on the set of “It’s not every day Sunday” (RTL-TVi).
Asked about a possible exclusion of the MR from the governments in the south of the country, the socialist replied that without an extremely rapid reaction from the MR, it would have been “a real political problem, from which we would have discussed and learned lessons”.
“How many times will we still have to suffer provocations, slippages, attacks (from Mr. Bouchez)?”, He added. “The file is getting heavier from month to month. It is important that a partner in the Walloon government, in the federal government, is correct in all respects and respects the fundamental commitments. We have here a deterioration in the political climate which poses a fundamental problem. “
Mr. Magnette said to take note of the maintenance of the commitment of the MR for the cordon sanitaire. “In a way, Mr. Bouchez was called to order by the MR, he undertook not to discuss any more with the extreme right”, concluded the president of the PS.
Earlier in the broadcast, Federal Secretary of State Mathieu Michel (MR) had considered that Mr. Bouchez had not broken the sanitary cordon, but had gone “to fight nauseating ideas in Flanders” where the media sanitary cordon n ‘does not exist. He did not respond to the remark that this sanitary cordon commits its signatories regardless of the place, nor to that of a possible disciplinary sanction, but referred to the media context in the north of the country and the presence of speeches of extreme right on social networks. As to whether he would have agreed to debate with the president of Vlaams Belang, “personally, I would not have done so.”