Wednesday, February 9, 2011

A sex strike to end the political crisis in Belgium?

Brussels Correspondent - Out of anonymity in which maintained its function poorly exposed because of the unending political crisis, Senator Marleen Temmerman Flemish offers women of his country on a sex strike. Order, suggests the elected - otherwise gynecologist - to put pressure on those who try to form a federal government.

First question, women negotiators plunged from around 240 days in discussions apparently hopeless, are invited to declare abstinence. We assume it's the same for the husbands of three women leaders participating in the discussions, namely the outgoing deputy prime ministers, Laurette Onkelinx (PS) and Joëlle Milquet (centrist), or the party president Ms Temmerman Caroline Gennez.

More antics if not real debates? Socialist Senator wants, she says, learn from the example of Kenya where women, tired of seeing drag a political crisis, had launched the slogan "No sex, no Government". A month later, the case was settled. The Belgian version of the action "is to ask what we can still do to finally get things moving," said Mrs.

Temmerman. "With humor," she says, for those who did not understand. The call is initiated when a new mediator appointed by King Albert II has been trying for days to force an institutional compromise. The chances of success by Didier Reynders, Minister of Finance and outgoing chairman of the Reform Movement party (Liberal), however, are considered low given the proliferation of proprietary formulated by the parties.

The assumption is now that the Belgians will be reminded to vote in the spring. Acting, she says, "out of frustration," Mrs. Temmerman said she started in politics to advance society in the areas of health and bioethics. But without government, "it is impossible to act." Comments on his initiative, however, are not tender.

"A little ridiculous," Judge, in the newspaper Le Soir, the political scientist Pascal Delwit, admitting however that no longer sees a way out of the current mess, where the multiplication of initiatives farfetched. There is little time, the actor Benoît Poelvoorde offered to all Belgian men to let themselves grow a beard.

And a group of surfers planning a big party in Ghent when Belgium will be beaten - in late March - the world record for the longest crisis ... The commentator's largest daily newspaper, Het Laatste Nieuws, lamented Tuesday morning: "If the policies themselves are no longer able to rise above a pubertal comedy on Nickelodeon, the country is in grave danger," wrote Luke Vander Kelen.

But feminist groups criticize, too, Mrs. Temmerman: "It would have been better to propose a strike of dishes," says the head of one of them. Jean-Pierre Stroobants

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