The Socialist Senator Marleen Temmerman In Belgium there is no government for almost 250 days. But now the politicians may have an incentive to reach an agreement as soon as possible: avoid sexual abstinence mass, the Socialist Senator Marleen Temmerman proposed to fellow countrymen to achieve the formation of an executive.
The idea of a vow of chastity with political purposes is not new. "I was in Kenya to work - he told the Belgian daily Le Soir, the Temmerman, who is a gynecologist by profession - when a woman told me that promoted a similar initiative two years ago after being left for long without the government.
After a month of abstinence from sex, men found responsible for the agreement. " Now the senator, entered politics only a few years ago, hopes that the proposal has the same effect in Belgium, and appeals "to women, including wives of the negotiators, for a sex-strike to speed up things." Then we would point out: "Behind all this there is no scientific research, but with the situation at an impasse requires a bit 'of humor to speed things up." Marleen Temmerman This is not the first solution "extreme" fly off in Brussels.
A few months ago the actor Benoit Poelvoorde TV broadcast a video in which he encouraged his fellow citizens to let his beard grow until the cartel for the new government. The basis of the lack of agreement is the historic conflict between Wallonia and Flanders, and in particular the political party of the separatist Flemish N-VA, winner of the elections of June 10, 2010 (the most votes in Flanders) and the Walloon Socialist Party PS (the most votes in Wallonia), in accordance with a difference of only one seat in the House and two in the Senate.
Feather the possibility of a Socialist-led government with the native Italian Elio Di Rupo, who has not reached an agreement with the N-VA, the possibility of forming a stable majority is increasingly precarious. The contrasts between the two political forces, to which King Albert II has attempted to deal with various consultative commissions in eight months, reflecting the two souls of a nation deeply divided: the language boundary drawn in 1963, in fact, confirmed distance between the two countries already distant history, problems and different needs.
So in economics, with Flanders which have always been opposed to the locomotive and tax laws that favor the most unproductive Wallonia, so the extraction of constitutional reform, with the Flemish Bart de Wever seeking a confederal state, a prelude to obtaining 'independence, and also from a political point of view, with different parties for the north and the south, albeit with the same name and color.
After the abandonment of office by the Flemish Socialist Johan Vande Lanotte, at which King Albert II asked him to encourage an agreement between the two majority parties, the country he lives one of the most difficult moments of its history. And now a real danger of secession, which incidentally was part of the electoral program of N-VA, is no longer removed.
The last resort seems to be entrusted with diplomatic action Didier Reynders, Minister in charge of Finance and chairman of the party MR (Francophone liberal), appointed by the king to check the possibility to help the political parties to resolve the stalemate. Meanwhile, public pressure grows more and more, and January 23 in Brussels was held the largest demonstration in recent years.
Nearly 40 thousand people between the Walloon, Flemish, and citizens of the capital took to the streets to ask the brokers to open a table with deadlines for the formation of the government. Among the protesters there were also some proposed solutions unconstitutional, as the delivery of all powers to the king or the dissolution of political parties.
Mark Todarello 
The idea of a vow of chastity with political purposes is not new. "I was in Kenya to work - he told the Belgian daily Le Soir, the Temmerman, who is a gynecologist by profession - when a woman told me that promoted a similar initiative two years ago after being left for long without the government.
After a month of abstinence from sex, men found responsible for the agreement. " Now the senator, entered politics only a few years ago, hopes that the proposal has the same effect in Belgium, and appeals "to women, including wives of the negotiators, for a sex-strike to speed up things." Then we would point out: "Behind all this there is no scientific research, but with the situation at an impasse requires a bit 'of humor to speed things up." Marleen Temmerman This is not the first solution "extreme" fly off in Brussels.
A few months ago the actor Benoit Poelvoorde TV broadcast a video in which he encouraged his fellow citizens to let his beard grow until the cartel for the new government. The basis of the lack of agreement is the historic conflict between Wallonia and Flanders, and in particular the political party of the separatist Flemish N-VA, winner of the elections of June 10, 2010 (the most votes in Flanders) and the Walloon Socialist Party PS (the most votes in Wallonia), in accordance with a difference of only one seat in the House and two in the Senate.
Feather the possibility of a Socialist-led government with the native Italian Elio Di Rupo, who has not reached an agreement with the N-VA, the possibility of forming a stable majority is increasingly precarious. The contrasts between the two political forces, to which King Albert II has attempted to deal with various consultative commissions in eight months, reflecting the two souls of a nation deeply divided: the language boundary drawn in 1963, in fact, confirmed distance between the two countries already distant history, problems and different needs.
So in economics, with Flanders which have always been opposed to the locomotive and tax laws that favor the most unproductive Wallonia, so the extraction of constitutional reform, with the Flemish Bart de Wever seeking a confederal state, a prelude to obtaining 'independence, and also from a political point of view, with different parties for the north and the south, albeit with the same name and color.
After the abandonment of office by the Flemish Socialist Johan Vande Lanotte, at which King Albert II asked him to encourage an agreement between the two majority parties, the country he lives one of the most difficult moments of its history. And now a real danger of secession, which incidentally was part of the electoral program of N-VA, is no longer removed.
The last resort seems to be entrusted with diplomatic action Didier Reynders, Minister in charge of Finance and chairman of the party MR (Francophone liberal), appointed by the king to check the possibility to help the political parties to resolve the stalemate. Meanwhile, public pressure grows more and more, and January 23 in Brussels was held the largest demonstration in recent years.
Nearly 40 thousand people between the Walloon, Flemish, and citizens of the capital took to the streets to ask the brokers to open a table with deadlines for the formation of the government. Among the protesters there were also some proposed solutions unconstitutional, as the delivery of all powers to the king or the dissolution of political parties.
Mark Todarello
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