While you guys are all wondering who he is, we in Belgium are wondering who’s going to replace Herman Van Rompuy as our prime minister.
He’s the only prime minister who managed to give Belgium non-chaotic federal politics, for a few months.
I fear that Belgium will now plunge into a new political crisis. Not because the former prime-minister, Yves Leterme, is a bad one, but because the Walloons simply don’t want him. We know they’ll do everything in their power to discredit Yves. Especially their media will. Le Soir already publicly said that they’ll “veto” Yves Leterme as prime minister. As if a newspaper elects ministers. Arrogance.
If the price for delivering the first president of Europe is that we must pay with a new political crisis, I guess that we are so used to politic crisis that it’s okay. We’ll survive. You guys can have him.
He’s quite intelligent. He’s not a media guy. We don’t know more about him ourselves. Use wikipedia.
The real bad thing about Herman is that in the past he let religion influence his politics. He was for example against abortion laws. And he is against Turkey joining the union because of religious differences.
However. For the people from the United Kingdom: fuck your conservative tabloid magazines. To the idiot editors of those tabloids: discrediting Van Rompuy was easy, still you guys screwed up with retarded articles about Belgium.
ps. I don’t care that you don’t want politics on planet.gnome. It pulls from my blog, so ask the administrators of planet.gnome to pick the right categories. I say this because I know that people will otherwise comment about it. I want them to know that I don’t care.