It will be there later to be straining at the meeting of members of sp.a Antwerp. It is estimated more than 300 members show to their vote on the ontwerpbestuursakkoord that N-VA, sp.a and Open Vld yesterday suggested. The meeting will take several hours.
The agreement received yesterday is already a lot of headwind. Güler Turan, Flemish member of parliament and one of the six sp.a-people are elected in the Antwerp city council, called even openly to against the “social agreement” to vote. According to her, the sp.a-negotiators nothing won on the field of diversity. the
Turan was at the start of the meeting pleased with the turnout. “A great day for democracy. I am very happy to have so many people to see. Today I come especially to listen to. I’ve had my say done, now it is up to the members.” She called again to vote against it. “As a lawyer, as a politician, I am not here achterzetten.”
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member of the European parliament Kathleen van Brempt hopes in the long queue in the meantime still to persuade the people to agree to vote. “I am very excited. That it is a fully social agreement would be, is unthinkable and unrealistic. And yes, we’d prefer the ships of Mobility. But in the field of social affairs, we will really move forward.” Van Brempt, who for six years opposition, also knows the difference. “Now we are six years into the policy off, to keep watch over certain themes. Six years in the opposition is really terrible. You can achieve nothing. We have in 2012 to be rushed and to emotional reasoning. Now we need to do things differently.”
