Proposition 54K3227

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Projet de loi modifiant la loi du 22 mai 2014 relative au chiffrage par le Bureau fédéral du Plan des programmes électoraux présentés par les partis politiques lors de l'élection pour la Chambre des représentants.

General information

Authors
CD&V Servais Verherstraeten
MR David Clarinval
N-VA Inez De Coninck
Open Vld Patrick Dewael
Submission date
July 10, 2018
Official page
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Status
Adopted
Requirement
Simple
Subjects
financial analysis impact study political parties election election programme election campaign publicity

Voting

Voted to adopt
CD&V LE Open Vld N-VA MR
Abstained from voting
Groen Vooruit Ecolo PS | SP DéFI PVDA | PTB PP VB

Party dissidents

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Discussion

July 19, 2018 | Plenary session (Chamber of representatives)

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President Siegfried Bracke

Mrs Lahaye-Battheu, rapporteur, refers to the written report.


Catherine Fonck LE

Mr. Speaker, I would like to justify our position and our vote now rather than just before when we voted.

I regret that the government has not, in due time, put all the means at the disposal of the Plan Bureau in order to allow a full and complete cifration of the electoral programs of the political parties, a cifration that was initiated within the framework of the Sixth State Reform.

That being said, it is quite accurate that the wording of the original law dating back to 2014 was at least nebulous. Indeed, in its article 2, this law provided for, in the lists of priorities, a numbering and that the latter would be carried out by priority taking into account "the maximum number of priorities fixed in consultation with the Federal Bureau of the Plan." The content of this law was thus nebulous.

The fact that this bill allows at least to clarify this point and therefore require that there be at least one numbering on five priorities constitutes a positive element. That is why we will vote positively for this bill, even though I maintain my initial regret.

I plead with the government that in the future, sufficient resources be granted to the Federal Bureau of the Plan to allow this numbering of all the political priorities of the various parties in the framework of the elections. It is, at some point, a question of political credibility for the whole and for the whole of citizens.

Mr. Speaker, you will understand that we will vote on this text.