Belgium is over 200 days without government. European record. The world record is not too far (289 days in Iraq). It is therefore not surprising to see emerge at the moment and various citizens' movements that require virtual stop. Faced with these demands, Claude Semal - typically Belgian artist and high quality - felt good to write on his Facebook status with a some success elsewhere: "The idiots who cry for a government are the same ones who cry when they have one." More than 100 people have "loved" this sentence without appeal ... and that's sad. Claude was probably right in thinking that many of those who now cry cry tomorrow. Is this a reason to treat them as fools and so the insult? My mom always taught me that when people talk behind the verb to be, should always be kind words! One may not agree with some, but not a reason to belittle them. Claude has probably also included. One comment he later wrote: "What seems silly is to claim" a government "without ever asking for the policy that it will apply". How different this comment on an action and his first language on people, on the edge of Poujadism (ouch, it's not going to like it)!
That said, I think he is wrong, even in this comment. This is not because we claim that our politicians are finally come to an agreement and form a government that is not interested in politics which will be implemented and we are ready to accept anything and everything. Belgium is a democratic state and there was an election - completely free, it must be stressed - where everyone could express their political expectations. It emerges from these elections that the Flemish and Francophone no longer quite the same vision. Flemish majority voting right, sometimes to the extreme. The French vote is mostly left, or rather toward the center. In addition to this classic cleavage, we know that the "logic ground" remains predominant in Flemish - which explains the massive vote for relatively nationalist parties - while the French remain in a "logic of the person."
The fact that the various negotiating parties fail to agree is fairly understandable, because - beyond the people and parties - there really are fundamental objections to a number of values. Practical problems arising from no lack of inaction in which we find ourselves after all is relatively consistent. This, however, everyone knows, including men and women politicians who are negotiating table. None of them manage to impose its conception. The agreement will inevitably be a compromise, unsatisfactory for everyone. It is this audacity then to have. Dare say we agree with a solution that is only partially satisfactory. As said another (we do not know that ... everyone has said), just five minutes of political courage.
When some people react - finally - at the lack of courage, they do not necessarily cry. They say they are fed up with wisdom and humor. I confess I am one of the few 78 000 campers who drew , in 3 days, their tents before the virtual 16, rue de la Loi (Prime Minister of Belgium) to demand that our politicians lead a government. Wild camping sites like this, I've known others, including Lebanon and Moldova. There, people were really into their tent and were risking their lives. We are in Belgium and we are only allowed one camping "virtual" or should I write "surreal"? I do not really think all these campers are "idiots" who weep. They are just citizens expressing their ras-le-bol, with dignity and humor.
Among them, it should probably be all political opinion. The fundamental question is of course to know what the government will fall into place and what policies it will lead. It will be again the result of a compromise related to the proportional system in Belgium. In France, a situation like that Belgium is currently living is unthinkable. Their majority system inevitably leads to a majority that imposes its views as it is in power. Is it better? I confess not to be persuaded. The Belgian concept of "compromise" seems devilishly interesting, truly democratic. Ultimately, everyone should be a little confusing. It is not yet "Ultimately". But it must be achieved. That's what all those "idiots" claim today. And they are right.
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