The N-VA’s Ambitions for Flanders: Separation or Better Governance? – Archyde

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It has, in fact, been many years since this party has put forward its independence ambitions so much. Why did you change your speech? “They know that, in Flanders too, it can scare people“, analyzes Dave Sinardet, professor of Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). “According to serious studies, only 10% of Flemish people are for the disappearance of Belgium. The N-VA has understood this for a long time. In public debates, she therefore no longer speaks of separatism“.
And then, the pro-independence voters of the N-VA, even if in the minority, are there and it is not a question of losing them: “It is a horizon that seems important and legitimate to them. Therefore, removing it from the speech, the statutes or the fundamental documents of the party could create a communicating vessel effect towards another independence party, which is the Vlaams Belang“, explains Pascal Delwit.
She wants to practice what we could call de facto independence
Théo Francken assured this on Bel RTL this Wednesday morning: the N-VA does not wish to separate Belgium. Is this really the case? Has the party abandoned its ambitions for independence for Flanders?
Vlaams Belang, for its part, has not changed its position. “The VB, for its part, remains in its position of separatism. This is a difference between the two parties, even if according to their statutes, they are both separatists“, specifies Dave Sinardet “Vlaams Belang still defends this position and also says that if there was a VB/N-VA majority in the Flemish Parliament, it would have to, in one way or another, make a sort of declaration of independence which would not would not be implemented directly, but which should serve as a basis for negotiations with the French-speaking parties and which should therefore be carried out after these negotiations“, he reports.
Vlaams Belang, for its part, has not changed its position. “The VB, for its part, remains in its position of separatism. This is a difference between the two parties, even if according to their statutes, they are both separatists“, specifies Dave Sinardet “Vlaams Belang still defends this position and also says that if there was a VB/N-VA majority in the Flemish Parliament, it would have to, in one way or another, make a sort of declaration of independence which would not would not be implemented directly, but which should serve as a basis for negotiations with the French-speaking parties and which should therefore be carried out after these negotiations“, he reports.
Vlaams Belang, for its part, has not changed its position. “The VB, for its part, remains in its position of separatism. This is a difference between the two parties, even if according to their statutes, they are both separatists“, specifies Dave Sinardet “Vlaams Belang still defends this position and also says that if there was a VB/N-VA majority in the Flemish Parliament, it would have to, in one way or another, make a sort of declaration of independence which would not would not be implemented directly, but which should serve as a basis for negotiations with the French-speaking parties and which should therefore be carried out after these negotiations“, he reports.
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