2023-11-18 17:00:07
It must be said that at the PS, Conner Rousseau’s slip-ups were starting to become embarrassing. The highly publicized Flemish socialist was not at his first controversy, his comments on Molenbeek, a Brussels commune where “When I drive by car, I don’t feel in Belgium either” had already shocked. Complaints also for acts of morals, but they will be closed without further action.
His comments on the Roma community revealed “in full” by Het Nieuwsblad were the straw that broke the camel’s back. A fortiori, when Tom Van Grieken, the president of Vlaams Belang, proclaims loud and clear that, for once, Conner Rousseau has gone too far. The upside down world which has enraged more than one in the ranks of the progressive left.
But if Rousseau’s resignation allows the PS not to have to distance itself too loudly from its sister party, which is also next door to Boulevard de l’Empereur, it also loses a major asset. Because with Vooruit’s “comeback” in the polls, the French-speaking socialists could hope to consolidate their status as the country’s leading political family.
In short, finding yourself in a strong position to lead negotiations and develop coalitions the day after the elections. Especially since Conner Rousseau had established himself as an essential figure in Flemish politics, notably by speaking in the ear of the president of the N-VA, Bart De Wever and by establishing himself as a strategic bridgehead between the north and south of the country following the elections. To the point of integrating, in the same way as the president of the PS, Paul Magnette, the “shortlist” of potential or even providential prime ministers the day after June 9.
The fall of KingConnah just 7 months before the elections therefore risks reshuffling the cards, both in the north and in the south of the country. Who will lose and who will gain? One thing is certain, there will be a before and an after Rousseau.
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