The belgian prime minister, Charles Michel, has on Tuesday evening announced that he wishes to resign as prime minister.
According to the political media Politico the prime minister will on Tuesday night go to the king Philippe of Belgium and to announce his departure.
the King may choose to refuse the prime minister’s wish and instead ask him to perform a temporary role as prime minister with limited power.
on Tuesday night has the king not yet decided whether he will accept the prime minister’s departure, informs the belgian royal family.
Michels announced the farewell comes in the wake of a belgian government crisis.
the Country’s biggest party, the flemish party N-VA, has withdrawn from the government following a disagreement on the UN’s new migrationspagt. The right-wing party believes that Belgium should not have signed the agreement.
N-VA’s farewell to the government has left Charles Michel, who is from the liberal party Reformistbevægelsen, with a minority government. He has previously refused to hold an early election.
The next belgian elections are scheduled to be held in may 2019.
It is not only in the belgian government, to migrationspagten the past few weeks has created turmoil. Also in the belgian streets, the population has expressed its dissatisfaction with the fact that the country has signed the agreement.
Sunday attended about 5500 people according to the police in a demonstration in Brussels against migrationspagten. The demonstration was organized by right-wing flemish parties.
the Purpose of migrationspagten is to ensure migration is orderly. Denmark gave in last week its support for the declaration, according to the government and experts, however, are not legally binding.
Critics of the migrationspagten believe that it gives the refugees for good conditions.
the government In Denmark and the Danish people’s Party, among other things, be much to disagree about, whether it’s a good idea to be included in the agreement.
