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Around this time, Yves Leterme is being sworn in as Prime Minister of my home country. What a disgrace! He won the elections in June of 2007, almost two and a half years ago. He then tried to form a government, in which he did not succeed. He needed help from his predecessors, who solved the political crisis that was caused by him, in order to become Prime Minister for the first time somewhere in March of 2008. Leterme was Prime Minister of Belgium until December of last year, when he was forced to resign due to the Fortis scandal, the Belgian bank that was sold by his government to the French. Herman Van Rompuy then became Prime Minister, and worked silently during the past couple of months.

Somewhere during the last summer, he became Minister of Foreign Affaires, until last week, Herman Van Rompuy was chosen to become the first President of the European Union. A very capable politician moves on to Europe, only to be succeeded by the most incapable politician throughout the Belgian political history.

By having him back, Belgium is cruising directly towards another political crisis, a crisis not seen before in Belgian history. Leterme is not capable of running the country, that’s a fact. He has lied to parliament, he has lied to the Belgian people and he has won the elections in 2007 by promissing irrealistic promisses. People like him do not deserve a second chance.

But apparently, some Belgian politicians do not agree with this, and are giving him a second chance. I can only hope it’ll be the last one.

I don’t have the capabilities to look into the future, but I don’t give it a lot of time before his second government will fall. A time-frame? Let’s say Eastern of 2010 to end this new government, followed by new elections in June of next year…

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