In short, the N-VA chairman thought that it was not up to a politician to criticize a judge’s verdict. If they do, they will undermine the rule of law. “As a politician you have to accept it. And if you don’t like it, you have to change the laws,” he fulminated. “This was really a low point for our rule of law. I had secondhand embarrassment. If I ever disgraced my party like that… I wonder what Koen Geens said about this in ‘Terzake’.”
LOOK. This TikTok posted Mahdi to denounce the ‘witch hunt’ on Acid
Earlier in the evening, former Minister of Justice Koen Geens (CD&V) had made it clear that his chairman could not count on support within his own party either. “The comparison of punishments that Mahdi made was injudicious. That has also been made clear to him internally,” he explained. “This was not the most successful communication and I told Mahdi that. Moreover, I did not find the medium TikTok ideal for delivering such a message. The chairman made a human error.”