“If even the king seems fed up with the formation, how bad is it for the rest of the population?”

Politicians who mock each other and even publicly call them ‘petits gamins’: even the most affable and nuanced compatriots are starting to look at politics with suspicion. “The bad thing is: most politicians realize this well enough. And yet they dig themselves into the trenches of their own right,” writes political journalist Fleur Mees. “A suggestion for a good intention? Transcend party interests. Otherwise, De Wever will have no choice but to say on January 7: ‘We can’t do it, Sire’.”

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