INTERVIEW. Tom Ongena: “Open Vld is not going to sacrifice everything to deliver the prime minister again”

Two turbulent ministerial changes, family clans that were at each other’s throats and polls that make the liberals smaller than the communists: Tom Ongena’s first 150 days as Open Vld chairman could not have been more turbulent. And yet he believes the best for the Liberals is yet to come. “Bart De Wever now pretends that we live in a developing country and that Vivaldi was the worst government ever, but in which parallel reality do you live?”

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