BHV: An Explanation for the Inexplainable
Day 884, 05:43
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by Reaussou
Issue 7
Since most of you eBelgians come from abroad and not even 20% of the RL Belgians understand what the fuzz is all about, I present you an article about the thing that today made our government fall.
Today Alexander De Croo, party leader of ‘Open VLD’, the liberal party of Flanders has announced his party is leaving the Leterme Administration, a cabinet which has now fallen 3 times in 3 years. It was an election promise of Yves Leterme, if he would be elected it would only take 5 minutes of courage to split BHV and do a state reform. Less is true and he resigned twice before he even started as prime minister and three times while being prime minister.
So what the hell is BHV and why do governments fall over three letters? A short lesson in Belgium.
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All voting districts were merged to fit provincial borders in 2002. Except for the province where Brussels is in, Flemish-Brabant, they couldn’t find an agreement there… so they were like: “Okay, somebody else will have to fix this in the future.” Why couldn’t they find a solution?
In Brussels both Flemish and Walloon parties can run in the elections. The purple area is the voting district Brussel-Halle-Vilvoorde. Because Brussels is in a voting district in Flanders it makes Walloon parties possible to run elections in Flanders! The result was French speaking people settled around Brussels, in Flanders, but still had the right to vote for Walloon parties. So the area around Brussels became Walloonized and more than 50% of the people now speak French in that area.
So in Flanders they were like, okay f*ck this shit, let’s bug them. So Flanders’ Government took all kinds of measures to preserve the Flemish language, like they ordered dual-language letters, street names and traffic signs and some other childish things like not appointing the French speaking mayors around Brussels.
Belgium has 6.000.000 Flemish people so you’d be like, you’re in majority, just vote them out. Think again.
The alarmbellprocedure makes it possible for a community to halt a law voted by congress if it is against their interests. This procedure stopt a law proposal and makes the proposal go to the government. A government we don't have. Our politics are in total chaos!
Currently we have this man organizing negotiations. Jean-Luc Dehaene...
He had till Easter to negotiate and find a solution. He gained some extra time in the extra time in the extra time and last night all parties were invited for the proposal. It was an epic fail in typical Belgian style. Mudthrowing between communities. The Flemish thinks they give too much to the Walloons and the Walloons think in reverse. Open VLD promised that if there’s no solution they would leave the government, existing out of French and Flemish Liberals, French and Flemish Christian democrats and socialist Walloons. So… new elections should be organized. Think again,… again.
The constitutional court in Belgium ordered that BHV should be fixed before new federal elections can be organized in a legal way. They ordered this because the voting district is an anomaly in contrast to all other voting districts.
So what will happen now? Elio Di Rupo of the Walloon socialists has already called upon the ‘decent’ politician to get their acts together and stop compromising a peaceful solution. More likely is they’ll probably find a juridical magic trick which will make elections possible and they’ll b*tch around for 4 more years to find a solution for the insolutionable.
Edit: The one-sided voting for the split of the district would be held today in parliament. But the head of parliament is now visiting our king Albert II. There's no law that describes the parliament can't come together without a government so there's a lot of question marks now. Is the king boycotting the vote, or shouldn't the parliament come together like we 'usually do'.
This was explained in a very simplistic way but now you should understand the essence when you hear about our glorious nation in the news tonight. To finish, some photos and names.
Alexander De Croo
Head of the Flemish Liberal Party
Yves Leterme
(ex-)Prime Minister of Belgium
Elio Di Rupo
Party Leader of Walloon Socialists
Mila Jovovic
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Interesting read.
I almost thought that the last picture was Freija Vandenbosche from SP.A, but this one is far more hotter 😛
anyway, it's a huge pile of bullsh*t. For the "independence and cultural values" of a meagre half of a province an entire country needs to suffer ...
read, vote and suscribe
Alexander De Croo as a god!
a bit colored if you ask me, but you get the picture.
O and by the way I wouldn't call Alexander God, he just put our country in a crisis. I'm not saying he hasn't done the right thing, but still,...
It's colored because I don't want to post ALL arguments from all parties...
I tried to look objective to the outside world.
BHV is stupid stuff which kill Belgium.
btw, wallon speak perfect french.
Lol "radicalist", I myself think too BHV-problems are a political game which serves nothing. Could you please remove your insults.
Of course Walloons speak perfect French, with their own accent. It's pretty sad you take this so serious :/.
I've told about member of Open VLD. They are racists at all.
Belgium is a unique Country, and lot of flemish want the separation.
Why ?
Cauz' Flemishbrabant has lot of frenchs ? It's only Racism.
Even the ONU say that.
And I'm Wallon (Brusseler in fact) and I have no accent. Lot of Walloons have no accents.
Only bias.
As he is saying measures like not appointing French speaking mayors is childish I'd hardly say he's a radical.
A good text, but this is one of those things that when you leave out the details, you do injustice to one party or the other. For instance: the not electing of those mayors has a perfectly legit reason. Flemish don't just want to pick on the Walloons.
But on the other hand, it's difficult enough as it is.
I do hear a different dialect between French rap music and Walloon rap music. And I don't favor one or the other. Come on dude, don't take it so personal.
I'm not racist and I like some persons of Open VLD (For instance Van Quickenborne and father and son De Croo). On the other hand I also like Walloon politicians (Charles Michel, Rudy Demotte and Michel Daerden). You might not like this but you're actually the one being radical here, while I'm trying to be objective and see the matter in a holistic way.
I dare you to rewrite this article, to keep it quite short, so other people can get the point why the Belgian government fell today, without my radicalism.
You should all become ministers 😛
Anyway, nice writing Reaussou 😉
Entertaining read indeed, sometimes one should just let everything go and have a good laugh with the absurdity of the seriousness. Too many conflicting interests involved, everyone seems to be as right as they are wrong 😉
Fuck all the people saying it shouldn't be split, absurdity this and that: truth is that it was ruled in constitutional court that it can't exist yada yada yada and it IS within the Flemish district. Fuck them and their alarm bell procedure, wtf. Now WE should give up territory by expanding brussels district or some other whatever fuck's sake shit measure do it does, yo? The situation is that it ISSSS Flemish.
Also very nice read, Reaussou you got some skills also death to the Walloons.
Haha, I'm just kidding. Don't really care.
It IS flemsih BECAUSE of facilities and BHV.
Erase facilites and split BHV? Give back the facilities area, it must be fair.
The reason why frenchspeaker become more numerous in Vlams Brabantia are NOT BHV but ... sociology reason.
For the rest, let BHV IRL.
Nicely written, but ridiculously off-topic.
Please keep eRep about eRep! RL does not belong here and it's against the rules!
The RL problems almost sound as srs bsns as the eRep problems we face. Maybe if we are able to get thru our differences and agree on decent government we can stand as an example to the "adults"
Since eBelgium is populated from people from abroad I wanted to give them an introduction in the ridiculous problems we have here IRL.
One Solution, REVOLUTION!! 😛 just being constructive.