OUR OPINION. “Why do we blindly accept that a government doesn’t work until the end?” | Opinion

When Prime Minister Alexander De Croo (Open Vld) enters the parliamentary hemisphere today for his State of The Union, he is not only speaking out about the coming year. He will look ahead to the next two years. “2024 is an election year, so I’m already recording that in the budget. That is good governance,” he previously told Het Laatste Nieuws. It goes in smoothly: it has to be done in one go now, because later it will be politically impossible. But since when is that normal? Why do we blindly accept that a government cannot work to the end?