the presidents of The three parties in the government -MR, Open Vld and CD&V, have announced Friday, after a meeting, they continued their work with a view to forming a federal government with a majority in the House and develop a recovery policy. The issue of abortion will be addressed in the context of " the delimitation of the coalition agreement ".
tensions were vivid on Thursday between the president of the christian-democrats, Joachim Coens, and his two fellow liberal colleagues, Georges-Louis Bouchez and Egbert Lachaert, about the issue of abortion. The CD&V strongly opposes the proposed law that have co-signed members of the MR and the Open Vld. The MR, more particularly, did not want to give point to his mps to postpone the vote scheduled Thursday in the House, faithful to its tradition of free votes on the ethical issues.