Aidonian's blog

If a outsider would look at the political infrastructure, I think they wouldn’t understand it how it could work. Most Belgians don’t understand it either, i think.

Our political infrastructure is quite complex for a country with only 11 milion citizens. Before a few decades ago, it was easier. Than you had municipal (city), province and federal. Somehow they thought it would make things easier if to create additional goverments. Now next to municipal, province and federal, we also have the Flemish goverment, the Wallonian goverment, the Brussels goverment, We have 4 different type of goverments, with on top the federal one. In 2011 Belgium held the record of longest without a federal goverment. We actually celebrated it. It worked, because we had other forms of goverment that were functional at the time.

Here is the thing. Our infrastructure works against us, especially in crisissituation like with covid19 pandemic. The regional goverments want their say in the matters and they want to profile themselves as the ones doing something. Politicians are always looking for to “solve” a problem, but in reality they aren’t solving anything really.

If you look at it, we have three regional goverments who have parties in their goverment on opposing side of the political spectrum. They don’t care about what the people want except when it comes down to election time. The rest of the time, they are happy to screw the ordinary people over. They are happy to screw each other aswell if it means to score political points with it.

Take Bart De Wever of N-VA, who during election time constantly attacks his opponents and starts a smear campaign against them, but after the election is basicly crying when his political opponents dont want to work with him. If you behave like that, don’t act surprised when your opponents do the same thing to you or ignore you alltogether.

Traditionally speaking, we don’t have national parties, but regional parties that belong in the same political spectrum like the conservatives of CD&V, CD&H, the liberals of OpenVLD,MR, the “socialists” SP-A & PS, the green parties Groen & Ecolo, than we have one national party PVDA-PTB and the centrum and far right N-VA & Vlaams Belang. The thing is, most parties have shifted towards the centrum right political spectrum. All thanks mostly to N-VA who has normalised it.

Our political infrastructure costs alot oif money. We have at least 4 different parlements for each goverment. We have a senate as well. The thing is, we don’t need all of these institutions. They cost tax payers alot of money and slow things down. I think all Belgians agree that we need to go back to the way it was: city, province and federal. But N-VA & Vlaams Belang don’t want that. They want to split the country into two different countries. There are some among Belgians who also want that, but that is a small minority. 

Let’s be honest. Is it in our best interest of the people the split the country up? One direct result of this would be that our social security is up for grabs by the private sector. 

Besides, we are already a small country, do we want to become smaller to split Belgium up? 

The problem with Belgian politics, that they only serve themselves and their friends. These career politicians care only about the economy and business’, not people. How many politicians go from political career straight to the private sector? sometimes even when they are still in office. 

Our politicians are corrupt, like most in the world.