After leaking new bill in federal formation, ABVV calls for “mass manifestation”

“This menu is acidic, it is indigestible to us,” responds Bert Engelaar, general secretary of ABVV, to the leaked version of the ‘reform memorandum’ of Formateur Bart De Wever (N-VA). Engelaar is “disappointed and indignant” after what he has read. The leaked document is the final socio-economic buffet that De Wever presented to the negotiators, the MR, Les Engagés, CD&V and Vooruit last Friday. Immediately Engelaar calls for a “mass manifestation” on February 13. “The indignation among people is too great, now it seeks in many people. With the previous demonstration there was already a lot of people on their feet, but now we are really going to focus on it, we call on everyone to come. Hot months will follow. ” Engelaar is also talking about 24 hours “if the buffet stays that way”.

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He is unhappy about flexibilisation in the field of work. “The hard -working Fleming has to beat more overtime – a working day now officially runs from 6 a.m. to midnight. The employee has to be increasingly flexible through all kinds of systems. He must be increasingly agile, but what about the workability? ” Engelaar also wonders “how all these measures will make extra savings for the government”. (Read more under the photo)

After the memorandum was presented to all party presidents last Friday, the despondency at the Christian Democrats and the Socialists, despite allowances, grew. Now it becomes clear why this menu is so difficult for Conner Rousseau and his troops. Immediately after leaking the memorandum, there will be a big headwind on the left side of the political spectrum. Engelaar, who himself sits in the party board of Vooruit, does not want to make any statements about the party. “The choice is up to them, but they know that I find this indigestible.”

The ACV also calls, through chairman Ann Vermorgen, “the Centerlinkse parties in the formation to properly adjust the unbalanced texts”. “Otherwise large social malhes will happen,” she says. According to her, little has changed compared to the previous invoices, despite the protest on the street. “We still note that the working people pay the tick through interventions in the index, the retention of the wage standard law, the increased and cheaper flexibility and heavy savings in pensions and sickness and unemployment insurance.”

Crumbs

PS chairman Paul Magnette was there on Wednesday evening as the chickens to burn the bill. It is striking that he awe of his sister party by focusing his arrows at the French -speaking parties at the table. “We have never seen such a gap in the history of Belgium between the election promises of the MR and Les Engagés and the reality of the proposed policy,” did he still post for 20 hours on X. “Salaries? Crumbs in three years. Healthcare? Two billion savings! The stability of Belgium? A net transfer of two billion to the regions! Pensions? Fines in abundance, especially for women. And all with a budget that is built on sand. It is so shocking that it is hard to believe. “

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Green chairman Bart Dhondt adjusts Belgian That “the plans affect the most vulnerable in our society and again let the biggest polluters and richests roughly undisturbed”. “Anyone who has a hard time is pushed even more into the misery. So I fully understand that this wine cannot be drinked for socialists and Christian Democrats. “

Open VLD also has criticism

The criticism does not only come from the left. The Flemish liberals see too few reforms and too many new taxes, while according to De Groenen the most vulnerable pay the strolls. Open VLD president Eva De Bleeker sees a lot of new taxes appear under left-wing pressure for those who work, save and undertake. She finds the so -called solidarity contribution “a little subtle marketing term under which there is a large increase in costs”. According to her, the new tax of 5 percent “For citizens who want to invest, invest and do business in our country” is mainly the hard -working ordinary Belgian.

The Flemish employers’ organization Voka remains discreet. “We need a reform government that places the economy first,” says director Hans Maertens in a short response. “We don’t respond to negotiation notes. It is waiting for a final agreement. “