It was his dream and yet he does not do it: Georges-Louis Bouchez (MR) does not become a minister and remains party chairman. How did he make that ‘choice of mind’? For a whole day he was in a battle, but a gathering with Prime Minister Bart De Wever (N-VA) and hours of telephone conversations with, among others, Sophie Wilmès (MR) were the deciding factor. “Bouchez can now only take one step higher in the power pyramid, and that is the premiership.”

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