Why Petra De Sutter was struggling with current political culture and Wetstraat says goodbye: “Group leader was not for her”

That Petra de Sutter did not want to become a chairman of Groen was already an omen. Now the outgoing Deputy Prime Minister wants to leave politics completely. At the age of 61 she makes a shot at the rectorhood of UGent. Portrait of a widely respected politician who struggled with current political culture. “She has never become a political beast.”

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