The President of the Mouvement Réformateur gave an interview to the French current affairs magazine "Le Point". The weekly questioned Georges-Louis Bouchez at length about Belgian politics, the art of compromise, and the composition of coalitions.
Georges-Louis Bouchez discussed the differences between our two systems. He explains in particular that in France the political arbiter is the president and that the president's actions are partisan. "The advantage of the Belgian system is that we benefit from the figure of the King, whose actions are not partisan." Also, according to Georges-Louis Bouchez, Belgium has two major political blocs alongside which the centre-right and other parties operate.
If coalitions can be formed at local level in France, this is largely due to the principle of a "sacred union" on a few major local projects, such as the construction of a rail line, for example.
This interview was also an opportunity to discuss the principle of a caretaker government. Finally, the MR President shared his vision of the French right, explaining that a merger between various centre and right-wing parties would be necessary to counter the far right. Georges-Louis Bouchez explained that the MR was the synthesis between Macron's liberalism and Sarkozy's right-wing politics.
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