Georges-Louis Bouchez is the political guest of the week of the party presidents in the pages of the DH. For the MR President, “it is important in public debate to bring back a bit of rationality, science and objectivity.” A campaign interview looking back at the battles fought and those still to come.
“If democracy no longer works, it's because a model designed to function on the basis of rationality now functions on the basis of permanent emotion.
As a citizen, I am stunned by the amateurism with which the State manages strategic situations. I may be saying things a party president shouldn't say. But staying silent is not my idea of how to do politics.”
Structural reforms for the country
Georges-Louis Bouchez: “Socio-economic reforms are needed, and the activation of the unemployed is part of that. Nuclear power, on the other hand, is an absolute red line. If there is no extension of several reactors and no construction of new units, we will not enter a government.
It's becoming quite clear that there is a centre-right bloc that wants to reform Belgium, made up of the MR, Open VLD and CD&V. Les Engagés and the N-VA could join them, but that depends on whether they have an appetite for reform. And on the other side, we have a bloc of regression made up of PS, Vooruit, Ecolo, Groen, backed by the PTB.”