Belgian Politics & Elections: Federal, regional & EP elections on June 9, 2024

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Sammy Mahdi (the flemish christian (?) democrat party leader) in drag queen.

I was not ready for it.

I presume that the CDV strategy to win next election will not based on the muslim vote.

I saw an RTBF article that said it's more of an indication that the Vivaldi parties that are clearly set to lose next election are trying any desperate attempt for relevancy by trying to "people-ise" their party presidents. Of course De Wever was the first to really popularise this, he made his name through a game show, but now you see Rousseau, GLB, Mahdi all turn up on random game shows/reality tv and it's a sign of the utter desperation for any publicity as the Vivaldi PR machines scramble to find some sort of unique identity from the partiocracy blob.

Re: overall attitudes to LGBT, You see with the schools being tagged and burned down because of the EVRAS law though that cultural reactionary attitudes towards LGBT people are still somewhat present and if anything making a return (a strange alliance of far right conspiracy  theorists and Islamist alter-globalists), with conspiracies spilling in from France about "LGBT ideology" and "sex education classes teaching our kids about masturbation at 8 years old". So even if Mahdi is commendable for his attitude towards trans people, he may be actually shooting himself in the foot. We have a trans minister who when named nobody blinked an eye and we had Theo Francken be called out by his own twitter fans for making a big deal about women's underwear for men, but looks like we are going to inherit the worst aspects of the UK/France twittosphere and their braindead ideas thanks to the cancer that is social media and astroturfing.

there are good reasons to oppose Evra but none to burn schools.

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Sammy Mahdi (the flemish christian (?) democrat party leader) in drag queen.

I was not ready for it.

I presume that the CDV strategy to win next election will not based on the muslim vote.

I saw an RTBF article that said it's more of an indication that the Vivaldi parties that are clearly set to lose next election are trying any desperate attempt for relevancy by trying to "people-ise" their party presidents. Of course De Wever was the first to really popularise this, he made his name through a game show, but now you see Rousseau, GLB, Mahdi all turn up on random game shows/reality tv and it's a sign of the utter desperation for any publicity as the Vivaldi PR machines scramble to find some sort of unique identity from the partiocracy blob.

Re: overall attitudes to LGBT, You see with the schools being tagged and burned down because of the EVRAS law though that cultural reactionary attitudes towards LGBT people are still somewhat present and if anything making a return (a strange alliance of far right conspiracy  theorists and Islamist alter-globalists), with conspiracies spilling in from France about "LGBT ideology" and "sex education classes teaching our kids about masturbation at 8 years old". So even if Mahdi is commendable for his attitude towards trans people, he may be actually shooting himself in the foot. We have a trans minister who when named nobody blinked an eye and we had Theo Francken be called out by his own twitter fans for making a big deal about women's underwear for men, but looks like we are going to inherit the worst aspects of the UK/France twittosphere and their braindead ideas thanks to the cancer that is social media and astroturfing.

there are good reasons to oppose Evra but none to burn schools.

It depends if one is criticising the actual proposition or if one has just read what the online conspiracy theorists have said about it. There is absolute chasm between the disinfo online and the actual proposition. There is no talk whatsoever of teaching 8 year olds about masturbation or even gender identity. There is talk of teaching 11 year olds about physical contact on things like legs and arms, and also how to tackle potentially awkward questions given many at that age have maybe already been sadly exposed to pornography.

https://www.rtbf.be/article/complotistes-extreme-droite-et-adeptes-de-theories-pedocriminelles-voici-le-reseau-des-desinformateurs-sur-levras-en-belgique-11256548

Sorry but it's full wokist:
"L’objectif est de "prendre conscience que l’identité de genre peut être identique ou différente, se rapprocher, s’éloigner, correspondre, ne pas correspondre, différer, osciller, … de celle assignée à la naissance."

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Judge rules (for now) that medias (VTM and HLN) can not report about "racist slur" said  in september by the Vooruit leader (drunked) Conner Rousseau.

Of course all medias speak only about that.

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The last ipsos poll is in !

https://www.hln.be/binnenland/de-grote-peiling-kwart-vlamingen-zou-voor-vlaams-belang-kiezen-malaise-voor-open-vld-en-groen-is-enorm~a61d66d4/

By seats:

https://twitter.com/PDelwit/status/1707809285382516954

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Liège (compared to 2018) (actual: PS-MR)

PS 24 (-6)
MR 19 (+1)
PTB 18 (+2)
Vert ardent (ecolo): 16 (+2)
Engagés: 10 (+3)
Vega 3 (-1)
PP 3 (doesn't exist anymore)
Defi 2 (-2)

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In woluwe St Pierre (42 000 people, one of 19 municipalities of Brussels, very rich), the actual mayor (centrist-conservative) will do a join list with the "liberal" (center right) opposition. And so Ecolo (and defi) will not be in the majority anymore.


Not the first lose for ecolo... Elections will not be good for them.