Ghent The Ghent Open Vld picked up today with a surprise of size. Just before the presentation of the new city council selected by the party members Sami Souguir on as vessels of Culture and Urban development. Exit Christophe Peeters for the liberals for 16 years continuously in the schepencollege sat.
It was an unprecedented political vaudeville that Saturday morning took place within the partijcoulissen of Open Vld Gent. It seemed a certainty that the next mayor Mathias De Clercq the two remaining schepenposten completed would be by certitudes Sofie Bracke and Christophe Peeters, but on a local party congress in the Liberal Archive, the party members thought otherwise.
Next Peeters had Sami Souguir, the current majority leader in the city council, will be a candidate for the second schepenpost the portfolio for Urban development, Spatial Planning and Culture. With a majority of the votes drew that last the longest at the end.
