The Brussels Chairman of Mouvement Réformateur (MR), David Leisterh, is up in arms over the announced entry of the Belgian Workers' Party, PTB, into the governing majority in Molenbeek commune.
"We cannot accommodate the participation of such a party in government, even less by glorifying majority agreements," he told journalists from various media on Tuesday.
"Molenbeek, a historically liberal municipality that is dear to our hearts and which is carrying the Capital of Culture for 2030 project, should be at the heart of regional redeployment, but it is now run by the Communists, as an experiment of the worst kind," the chairman of the French-speaking Liberals in Brussels lamented.
"We must not be fooled by the core of the Communist strategy, by the concealment of the project to infiltrate power and better entrench their positions," added the man in charge of negotiations, notably with the Socialists, for the formation of a regional government in Brussels.
"I condemn in the strongest possible terms the de-demonisation of a party with a moribund ideology, responsible for so much pain, misery and death," as conveyed by certain media “boasting about what they call a social-democratic project," Leisterh said.
"There is nothing social about communism, there is only a programmed bankruptcy that will drag everyone, first and foremost the weakest, over a nameless precipice," he charged.
"In the age of social networks and fake news of all kinds, the duty of the press is to guarantee quality intellectual work and unbiased information, not to create the conditions for its accession to power," MR's Brussels chairman stressed.
