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Greetings Belgium,

I wish to take this opportunity, on the last day of 2020 to say some final words to end this year and begin a new year.

I am pleased to see the reaction that my detailed and transparent plans have received. Unlike my opponent, who has been riddled with criticism I believe that by focusing on detail, by focusing on words instead of pretty pictures, I managed to give each and everyone of you a clear picture of what you can expect in a presidency under my leadership.

No matter what happens on the 5th of January 2021, I will continue to fight with detail and transparency, with activity and vigour for you. Be it as President of this country or by being one of the many voices in Congress, acting for the Belgian people and holding whatever government accountable. My enacting pressure, we usually see two reactions, people either rise to face the pressure or they shut down completely.


I am disappointed to see that this government has not just shut down, but almost completely disappeared. Its activity has dropped incredibly fast and the inactivity has been rampant among most of its government members. (I’m happy that at least some have risen to the task) There have been little plans enacted, instead the government has retreated to the past, its safe space. Yet, it runs once again under the promise of change, yet I can’t but shake my head at the history of this party and their accusations towards myself.

The current president has repeatedly threatened to release “damning evidence” of my wrongdoing of the past. Whatever that may even mean, for I have shown repeatedly in the past of being willing to work with HOPE, to give HOPE members a chance, even if it went against my party members in the past. May I remind each and everyone that in my first presidential term, I refused to be occupied as an Anti-Takeover measure and was promptly overridden by my own government? I have always tried my very best to help each and everyone, to give HOPE members that chance to rise and help Belgium.

Yet, they have always disappointed me and given me reasons to not respect them. Not only by accepting homophobic and sexist members among their ranks, without any repercussion. By hurting members of the community, people whom I considered friends. By pushing out honest players who wanted to do good for Belgium simply because they wanted to work with the ruling parties. By aligning with people who destroyed honest government programs that helped younger players, by politicizing those programs and sowing pure destruction.


I couldn’t respect a party that accepted such acts, that stood by and did nothing. Instead, HOPE ever since I joined in 2012, has always run with the promise of change. For 8 years now, change is all this party has wanted, and yet the change has never come. Change for HOPE has always just been a fancy slogan, never one of real substance. Even now, their change has been non-existing, no new programs, nothing at all.

I’ve grown tired of seeing the same spiel over and over again, seeing a party promise the moon and not achieving anything. All the successes that Belgium has achieved were never realised by HOPE, only put at risk by their actions. They are the destroyers of everything, whatever the ruling parties suggested, HOPE opposed but could never do better. People willing to create a bridge between both sides, were ridiculed and pushed out by HOPE, stuck in an endless cycle of hate, hate that destroyed this small but loyal community. I have no doubt that HOPE’s actions in the past accelerated the downfall of this community. Sexism, homophobia and hatred never helped anyone, especially not to foster a bright community.

Maybe the optimist in me is hoping that HOPE might one day change, set aside its past and start a-new, to bring forward detailed proposals and enact them. However, the realist in me sees little hope in it. As long as Change remains but a simple slogan, HOPE will remain the same as it has been for 8 years and counting. A party that only wishes to destroy, a party that fails to rise to the challenge when under pressure. A party that promises the moon and more, only to let everyone down completely.

A happy new year to each and everyone and much much love. Stay safe!