2024-04-17 16:46:33
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17 avril 2024
18:46
The Minister-President of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation deplores “a stab from the PS and Ecolo”. The alliance with the PTB isolates the liberals, for whom it will no longer be possible to work in confidence with its two majority partners.
The alternative majority, supported by the PTB, which allowed the modification of the Landscape decree on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday has the direct consequence the clinical death of the government of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
As a reminder, according to the new text, students will no longer have to earn 60 but 45 credits in two years, while the criterion of successful completion of an annual program of at least 45 credits goes by the wayside. The student would also have right to two additional registrations if he reorients himself, even if he has already spent two years in a first year.
A “stab from the PS and Ecolo”
For the MR, this system goes against the objectives of the Landscape decree. And on the political level, this divide, resolved thanks to an alternative majority supported by the PTB, plunges the government in “current affairs” after the “stab of the PS and Ecolo”estimated its minister president MR, Pierre-Yves Jeholet.
“Basically, PS and Ecolo acted hastily by carrying out a reform of the reform despite the opinions expressed by the academic world, we believe on the side of the MR. It follows from this legal uncertainty which will have to be evaluated.”
On Bel RTL, the president of the MR, Georges-Louis Bouchez, brought out the heavy artillery. “PS and Ecolo are trying to make people believe that they are going to continue working even though they have pulled the plug,” he said.
“There is still a government since in the federated entities, the governments do not fall as in the federal government, but there is a government that is unable to function in loyalty and trust in view of what happened last night”, commented the MR Minister of Higher Education, Françoise Bertieaux, on Bel RTL on Wednesday morning.
As for the government’s next projects, “I don’t know how to imagine that there is the slightest confidence to pass them, sinceyou never know if a partner will come with an alternative majority“, she said. She deplores an “electoral headlong rush” on the part of her ex-partners.
“This sequence particularly suits the MR because it feeds his discourse on the 50 shades of the left.”
Student voter races
This government fall which does not say its name comes 15 days before the end of the legislature, which limits the impact of the sequence on the functioning of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
The stakes were obviously elsewhere for PS and Ecolo: retain young voterswhile a million people will go to the polls in Belgium for the first time on June 9.
Who loses who wins in this electoral context? “It’s win-win for everyone“, estimates Caroline Sägesser, research fellow at the Center for Research and Socio-Political Information (Crisp).
“This sequence particularly suits the MR, because it nourishes his speech on the 50 shades of the left and allows him to present himself in responsible party attached to the excellence of teaching higher,” she continues.
“PS and Ecolo are fundamental winners,” she adds. “For students who are going to vote for the first time, it was very dangerous for them to let this narrative of abandonment developed by the FEF and the PTB unfold. For the PS in particular, it is perhaps a good thing to show that it is possible to work with the PTB.”
Modifying a decree a few weeks before the exams without a quantified evaluation for electoral reasons is “at best opportunism, at worst amateurism”
Any benefit for the PTB
If the PTB did not manage to obtain the repeal of the landscape decree (and therefore the break it requested to come to power), the episode is a “bonus” for the communists, according to Caroline Sägesser. “He reveals that the PTB is ready to collaborate and that voting for him is therefore useful.”
But this left-wing majority, called for by the FGTB, undermines the main argument used by the PS to counter the PTB, namely that the latter, useless because incapable of joining an executive, does nothing in fact otherwise strengthen the right by weakening the reformist left.
“I am not sure that this negative discourse towards the PTB is in any case beneficial,” analyzes Caroline Sägesser. “For the PS, it is better to focus on what it can actually achieve.”
The big loser in this whole story is perhaps politics as a whole. Modifying a decree a few weeks before the exams without a quantified evaluation for electoral reasons is “at best opportunism, at worst amateurism”, says Caroline Sägesser. “This is not likely to strengthen confidence in the political world.”
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