On holiday with Sammy Mahdi: “I still get goosebumps when I step into parliament”

He has to make the CD&V bigger again, but Sammy Mahdi (35) has nothing to do on holiday. And that is exactly what the chairman of the Christian Democrats did when he exchanged Belgium for a few days on the beach in the Netherlands. His girlfriend Nawal was also there, but remained out of the picture. And yet she is also part of the picture: “Since I’ve been with Nawal, I regularly hear: ‘You shine.’”

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