INTERVIEW. The only farmer who is also mayor: “If nothing comes out of the consultation, the country will be flattened again”

MayorBoerBart. Perhaps Bart Dochy (51) can go into the elections in Ledegem with those three B’s on a poster. He is CD&V mayor, but also a farmer in his wife’s pig farm, and took part in the farmers’ protest. “Am I offending my chairman and minister by doing so? Sorry, I’m not going to deny myself. I resigned when the nitrogen agreement was voted on.”

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