The majority resolution on the Armenian Genocide will receive almost unanimous support Thursday, with some abstentions. The debate took place on Wednesday in plenary, however, did not allow the French-speaking parties to find serenity on this controversial issue.
The resolution of the majority refers to the Prime Minister before the assembly on June 18th Charles Michel was then recognized on behalf of the Belgian government the genocide there a century. In the eyes of the opposition, the text does not go far enough, because it does not include a provision clearly stating that the parliament also recognizes the genocide.
“Since June 18, there is no longer any ambiguity about the Armenian Genocide. Belgium recognized the genocide by the voice of the Prime Minister, who on behalf of Belgium, “said the head of MR Group, Denis Ducarme, has hardly tasted the regrets of the PS.
“For us, Belgium recognized the genocide but we still do not understand why you do not want the whole nation to be associated with this recognition,” said Georges Dallemagne (CDH).
“We can be actors rather than followers of the government”, noted Stpéhane Crusnière (PS).
The question was stirred several Francophone parties. The PS was pointed because of the attitude of some of its elected Turkish origin in the Brussels parliament and to the absence of the Deputy Emir Kir during the minute of silence held in the House. The CDH excluded the regional deputy Mahinur Ozdemir because it did not recognize the genocide. The MR was not spared when the Foreign Minister, Didier Reynders, returned genocide recognition to a court, on the eve of a commemoration in Yerevan which he has not made.
The MR accused the PS of “playing a politician card”. “If it took so long, it is because this debate brings the issue of communalism in our country”, Mr Ducarme said.
Benoît Hellings (Ecolo) scratched his side the MR that sought, according to him, to embarrass the other parties elected to their community of origin.
The tone was more consensual in Flemish ranks. Peter De Roover (N-VA) called on his colleagues to leave semantic quarrels and to join the majority of text, even if it seems to them imperfect, to give it more weight.
The opposition groups have tabled amendments to the majority of text. Their rejection should lead to the abstention of some members.
After the session is a formal Emir Kir, which definitively ended the controversy at the microphone of our colleague Peter Magos: “All this will be behind us tomorrow and I think the work of the Socialist Party allows to move on issue so for me it is a text on which I can express my agreement, without worry. “
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