Willi das Kampfschwein – Belgian Senate: 1 - 0
am 29.09.2005 von http://lawjustice.blogspot.com
Marc Wilmots (ex Schalke 04) wanted to resign as a senator, but there isn’t anyone left to succeed him. He then proposed a workaround: by refusing his salary as a MP he would - only de facto - resign as a senator, while officially still staying a MP.
An alternative was that minister Armand De Decker (same MR party) would resign as a minister and become a senator again. He didnt want this apparently... ? Hello journalists ?Another alternative was to have new elections for the Frenchspeaking electorate but would have meant elections also in the non-splitted electoral district Brussel-Halle-Vilvoorde .... not very appealing for the current government since they failed to split it...Today the Senate decided that Mr. Wilmots cant resign nor …
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