After Vooruit, the next party sets its sights on a post: N-VA is eyeing Minister of Welfare

If it depends on N-VA leader Zuhal Demir, the Welfare authority will go to “someone who is unbound by pillars and structures” after the elections. In other words, prefer N-VA to CD&V.

The Flemish Minister of Welfare has been a CD&V member for many years. Now Hilde Crevits, previously Wouter Beke and Jo Vandeurzen. If it depends on Zuhal Demir, N-VA party leader in Limburg, this will change after June 9. “It would be good for someone to come there who is unbound by pillars and structures,” she said to TV Limburg on Saturday, on the sidelines of a party meeting in Heusden-Zolder.

Demir thereby refers to the entanglement of CD&V with welfare organizations from Christian civil society. When asked whether she herself wants to become Minister of Welfare, she answers evasively that it must be “someone unattached”. But it is clear that she is aiming for this with N-VA.

After Vooruit previously expressed its ambition to deliver the next Minister of Education, a second party has set its sights on a competence. This makes the elections a bit like the swimming pool of a tourist hotel, where guests place their towels on the best loungers in the morning. (pl, agy)