The raise of votings for CD&V (continuation of the previous post: roots of the political crisis)

CD&V mainly took over some points of the Vlaams Belang and attenuated them, so they made them more interesting for a more diverse public and less extremistic. They promised a 'union reformation'. The structures of our state would be changed thorougly, leading to a greater independency of Flanders and Walloon and also resolving some territorial issues.
Front leader of the party at that moment had become Yves Leterme, a man from West Flanders who already was the Prime Minister of the Flandern government on that moment.



With his new and revolutionary program he promised to resolve all issues who were frightening every Belgium politician and were pending for years and years between Flanders and Walloon.
Leterme got chosen by the population and became the Prime Minister of Belgium. This implies he had the task to form a government. This didn't seem to be a cup of tea. As expected, especially the Walloon politicians blocked the negotiations on all possible ways. The four Walloon political parties demanded to not separate BHV, to appoint the chosen Frenchspeaking politicians as city managers of Dutchspeaking communes (which is against the main law, it only allows that French/Dutchspeaking persons govern in French/Dutchspeaking communes) and to stop using the argument that Dutchspeaking (Flemish) people are the majority of the country's population.
(This argument is being used by Dutchspeaking people to point out that the French community gets more money to spend par person, then the Dutch community does...). The Flemish politicians didn't agree with this argument cause this will lead to an expansion of the French community (and so a loss of the Flemish territorium) and an expansion of the French-spoken region while French-speaking people are already moving to Dutch communes, suppressing the Dutch language in this communes because most of them are unilingual, making it hard for Flemish people who also are unilingual to live their because their entry to certain facilities is hindered.



This made it impossible for the government to form a consensus, subsequently Leterme was leaven no choice: betraying the people that voted for him by giving the Walloon people what they wanted, even if this importance was totally contrary to Flemish importances and making the most important things he wanted to ask subsequently impossible (because he would be inable to use the argument of the fact that the Flemish people are in the majority), or ... just stop with the negotiatons and resign...
He chose to stand up for the rights of the people he defended, and resigned honourably...

From the beginning it was clear: nevertheless the fact that Leterme was chosen by the majority of the people to govern the country and his very brave intentions, somewhere behind the scenes he was being totally sabotaged. Leterme could impossibly succeed. And no-one with this demands at the Walloon people would ...