A few hours after the new federal government was sworn in, the strongman of French-speaking Belgian politics, Georges-Louis Bouchez, was a guest on “Bonsoir le Débat” on LN24 and on RTBF's 7:30pm news. An opportunity for the MR President to look back on his choice of ministers, on the reforms needed for our country, and on his personal decision not to join the government.
Georges-Louis Bouchez: “Those who disagree with the left face increasingly violent attacks. I've seen it since the victory of 9 June.
For more than 30 years, the left has truly dominated the way of viewing and speaking to everyone who disagreed with them.
So this narrative will need to be countered. The reforms will need to be explained. A different vision of the world will need to be shown. That is the cultural battle. It is even the essence of politics. Because politics, before it's won at the ballot box, is first and foremost won in people's minds.
People who are able to work and want to work will be helped. Those who, on the other hand, hope to live off the community will be penalised. That is simply common sense and true social solidarity.
Social solidarity must exist, but it must not be better paid than work. People who are genuinely ill need not worry: nothing will change for them. What we will do, however, is crack down on fake sick notes. Because yes, that does exist: people who have a sick note without being ill, undermining solidarity”.