Rutten: “Municipalities choose which province they want to belong to”

“If democratically elected municipal councils themselves indicate that they want to belong to the province of East Flanders, who are we here in Brussels to ignore that?” This was said by Minister of Internal Affairs Gwendolyn Rutten (Open Vld) in the Flemish Parliament after a question from Stephanie D’Hose (Open Vld).

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