The battle for child benefits: “Sammy Mahdi hangs over the Flemish budget negotiations like a kind of Georges-Louis Bouchez"

Jan Jambon (N-VA) should address parliament within less than an hour, but that plan may be delayed. The culprit, according to N-VA and Open Vld? CD&V chairman Sammy Mahdi. After the unexpected resignation of CD&V stronghold Hilde Crevits, he would look over the shoulder of ‘neophyte’ ministers Jo Brouns and Benjamin Dalle as a third shadow minister. Much to the dismay of N-VA and Open Vld. “He hangs over the Flemish government like a kind of Georges-Louis Bouchez.”

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