No government, because no sex. Flemish Socialist Senator Marleen Temmerman has proposed a "sex strike" to put pressure on negotiators to be forming a new government in Belgium, with 241 days without reaching the expected agreement, about Iraq's record of 289 days (about nine months) heading. The proposed Temmerman, reminiscent of Lysistrata, the classic play by Aristophanes in which the protagonist convinces the women of Greece to practice chastity to force men to end the war between Athens and Sparta, is actually inspired in a Kenyan initiative.
As explained by Senator and gynecologist in an interview in the daily Le Soir, on a recent trip to Rwanda, a woman told them two years ago when it launched a similar initiative had long been without a government and began to be tired of the situation. A month later, he had executive. "We appeal to women, including partners of the negotiators to make a sex strike in the hope that things accelerate," said the senator with a patina of typical Belgian humor absurd.
"There is no scientific research behind it," says Temmerman, but in view of the situation in deadlock in the negotiations "or you become a cynic or try to move things with humor." His proposal has not liked or feminist or political analysts in the country, recognizing, however, that the situation is critical and no one is clear how to solve it.
The country has been headed since June 13, 2010 and after Johan Vande Lanotte, the penultimate mediator appointed by King Albert II, resign in January, the situation is becoming desperate. The problem is the usual lack of understanding between Walloons and Flemings, and the last chapter, the claim of Flanders received the full transfer of employment policy and unemployment benefits, to which opposes Wallonia.
Solutions delirious stalled negotiations with the same irony, the Belgian actor Benoît Poelvoorde suggested in mid-January to their fellow citizens who did not shave his beard until the country resolve the political crisis longest history. The Belgians, tired of the situation, took to the streets on January 23 in the "march of shame" (Shame).
Thousands of citizens Flemish, Walloons and Brussels agreed for once to walk the streets of Brussels and require the political class to sit in a negotiating table and reach a compromise. Two days before the event which drew some 39,000 Belgians, a group of artists and intellectuals gathered Flemish and French speakers in Brussels at an event called Solidarity enhances a culture, designed to strengthen ties between both communities.
There, the designer Philippe Geluck, always humorous, he proclaimed: "A few days ago came the revolution of jasmine in Tunisia. Here, which is underway is the revolution of mussels and chips [typical Belgian dish] . 
As explained by Senator and gynecologist in an interview in the daily Le Soir, on a recent trip to Rwanda, a woman told them two years ago when it launched a similar initiative had long been without a government and began to be tired of the situation. A month later, he had executive. "We appeal to women, including partners of the negotiators to make a sex strike in the hope that things accelerate," said the senator with a patina of typical Belgian humor absurd.
"There is no scientific research behind it," says Temmerman, but in view of the situation in deadlock in the negotiations "or you become a cynic or try to move things with humor." His proposal has not liked or feminist or political analysts in the country, recognizing, however, that the situation is critical and no one is clear how to solve it.
The country has been headed since June 13, 2010 and after Johan Vande Lanotte, the penultimate mediator appointed by King Albert II, resign in January, the situation is becoming desperate. The problem is the usual lack of understanding between Walloons and Flemings, and the last chapter, the claim of Flanders received the full transfer of employment policy and unemployment benefits, to which opposes Wallonia.
Solutions delirious stalled negotiations with the same irony, the Belgian actor Benoît Poelvoorde suggested in mid-January to their fellow citizens who did not shave his beard until the country resolve the political crisis longest history. The Belgians, tired of the situation, took to the streets on January 23 in the "march of shame" (Shame).
Thousands of citizens Flemish, Walloons and Brussels agreed for once to walk the streets of Brussels and require the political class to sit in a negotiating table and reach a compromise. Two days before the event which drew some 39,000 Belgians, a group of artists and intellectuals gathered Flemish and French speakers in Brussels at an event called Solidarity enhances a culture, designed to strengthen ties between both communities.
There, the designer Philippe Geluck, always humorous, he proclaimed: "A few days ago came the revolution of jasmine in Tunisia. Here, which is underway is the revolution of mussels and chips [typical Belgian dish] .
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