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“PS and N-VA spoiling for a fight,” headlines De Standaard, which reports that two months after general elections, negotiations on the formation of a coalition in Belgium are now in total deadlock. According to the daily, Francophone socialist Elio Di Rupo is still struggling to fulfill his mission to manage the “pre-formation” of a government, but he has been hindered by the Flemish CD&V (Christian-democrat) and N-VA (nationalist) parties who will now have to “come to their senses.” If this does not happen, “the country will inevitably be plunged into financial chaos.”
As it stands, there is so little trust between parties from both communities that they have been reduced to exchanging “messages via the media.” The leader of the N-VA, Bart de Wever, even sent his driver to spy on Di Rupo’s press conference, reports an astonished De Standaard.
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