The sp.a. request to the presidents of the CD&V, Open Vld and MR, who are trying to put together a coalition with six parties, of guarantees regarding the content of the note that the party has submitted to the trio in the beginning of the week. This is what emerged from the discussion that the three parties have had with the president of the sp.a, Conner Rousseau, this Saturday.

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Joachim Coens (CD&V), Egbert Lachaert (Open Vld), and Georges-Louis Bouchez (MR) are trying to put together a coalition called the Arizona at the federal level, in which the three parties would be supplemented by the N-VA, sp.a and the hrc. In this scenario, the francophone socialists would be put aside and should sit in the opposition to a government where the seat of their party brother.