King Philip
has given his negotiators, Sabine Laruelle and Patrick Dewael, presidents of
respectively the federal Senate and the federal Chamber of Representatives, one
week more to time ‘to form rapidly a new government’. He received both of them
late in the afternoon at the Royal Palace in Brussels.
It is the word ‘rapidly’ in the official
statement of the palace that sounded remarkable yesterday evening. Most
observers assumed that all attempts of both negotiators had failed.
The last gunshot was the announcement by
Joachim Coens, the president of the Flemish Christian democrats, that two third
of the members of his party had, in an internal poll, expressed their
preference for a coalition with ‘a Flemish majority’, so including the Flemish
nationalists of NVA. Coens himself translated this into a wish to bring all
parties that are ready to administer the country together around the table,
without veto’s, before starting the real negotiating work.
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