Vlaams Belang has become “an ally of Russia in a blind obsession with destroying our country”. It was a very fierce swipe from Prime Minister Alexander De Croo (Open Vld) on Thursday, during question time in Parliament. There was also sharp criticism from CD&V, Open Vld and Groen about the actions of VB leader Filip Dewinter.
It had been known for years that Dewinter had ties with China in recent years. For example, he allegedly arranged 10,000 face masks in 2020 through a Chinese who was deported from our country at the end of 2017 for espionage. Earlier this week it became known via ‘Apache’ and ‘Humo’ that Dewinter was paid by the Chinese Communist Party for all kinds of lobbying work.
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And yesterday/Wednesday it was leaked that Dewinter and his colleague in the Flemish Parliament Filip Brusselmans gave interviews to ‘Voice of Europe’, a news website whose Czech intelligence service discovered that a personal friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin uses the site to increase Russian influence. increase in Europe.
Great outrage
There is great indignation in the House, as became clear during question time on Thursday afternoon. “The staff of those regimes (Russia and China, ed.) are in that faction,” Green faction leader Wouter De Vriendt pointed to the seats of the Vlaams Belang.
CD&V member Franky Demon hoped that the population will see in June “who really looks after their interests”. Open Vld MP Egbert Lachaert called the revelations “downright worrying” and had a message for Flemish Prime Minister Jan Jambon. “This party is not a party like the others as long as people like Filip Dewinter are walking around there.”
N-VA faction leader Peter De Roover remained more blunt, but did speak of “a justified call to all factions that they must look for themselves how they want to function”.
“Ally”
Prime Minister Alexander De Croo was also very sharp, although he did not explicitly mention Vlaams Belang or Dewinter by name. “In a blind obsession with destroying our country, you have become an ally of Russia, which wants to destroy everything we have built here, our free and prosperous society,” it said. “You are an ally by rubbing shoulders with Putin’s friends, you should really ask yourself questions about that.”
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