PORTRAIT. His name means ‘The Redeemer’, but is Sammy Mahdi really like that for CD&V? “Feel free to call me the Barack Obama of the Aldi”

His surname means ‘The Redeemer’, but is Sammy Mahdi (33) also the same for the moribund CD&V? Is he, the loser of the presidential elections in 2019, the innovator that the Christian Democrats need? But above all: who is the 33-year-old young man who fits in so many boxes at the same time that no single box seems to be the right one? And why do you write his last name with an ‘a’, but pronounce him with an ‘e’?

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