Elio Di Rupo (PS): “Thanks to this man in three-room suit, I told myself that my function was used for something”

“A private person cannot go bankrupt” – Elio di rupo (ps): "thanks

In 1998, when he set up this law relating to the collective debt regulations which will come into force the following year, Elio Di Rupo-Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy (PS) of the last federal government led by Jean-Luc Dehaene, whose party (the CVP become since CD&V) will be swept by 1999 election following the crisis of Dioxine.

In the socialist’s eyes, this law was then particularly necessary. Consequently, Elio Di Rupo remembers having noticed “A fairly notable increase in over -indebted people. Moreover, whose prospects were zero in terms of personal recovery. Consequently, As much as a business can go bankrupt, as much a private person cannot. Moreover, “

“Every morning. Therefore, I brought a glass of alcohol to the SNCB strikers”

This law still elio di rupo (ps): “thanks exists, “Even if it has been changed “. It allows “Solve a debt problem thanks to the intervention of justice over a period from 5 to 7 years. Moreover, At the time. Furthermore, the person concerned was to devote a third of their income, if I remember correctly, to reimburse their debts. Nevertheless, Reimbursement was made fairly between creditors “.

Elio Di Rupo also explains that this law has made it possible to durably reduce the number of indebted people on the whole country. In addition, but that it was not easy to set up. Similarly, “”It was complicated because the right of the CVP. Similarly, the PSC which sat within the majority did not hear it from this ear. Additionally, Similarly, There was certainly a progressive wing in these two parties, but there was also a harder wing. Nevertheless, I think it would be even more difficult elio di rupo (ps): “thanks to pass under this government. Similarly, We were more at a time when Dehaene’s great concern was our entry into the Euro. Furthermore, because the Dutch, as usual, were against “. However, Digressing a little by specifying that “The Benelux is a fiction “Elio di Rupo Ajouute que “The Dutch people. were therefore against our entry into the euro because they believed that we had too many debts. In reality we melted the debt using different mechanisms, and we finally entered into euro“.

Despite this difficult economic context for Belgium, the socialists wanted to vote, however “A left marker, a progressive marker. When I understood the stake, we worked a lot to bring this law relating to the collective debt regulations. It therefore displeased the right within the government and its ideology. For the right, the one who goes must pay. We can defend it. but we wanted elio di rupo (ps): “thanks on our side that this law helps those who have been in debt and who are in good faith. Sometimes there are life accidents. there are sometimes also people who have gone guarantors for someone and who find themselves in the debts afterwards. It can happen. I will always remember a couple of old people here in Mons who had bonded for one of their children. The bailiff had started to take out their furniture on the sidewalk. and I intervened Manu Militari for it to cease “. The socialist says he is therefore delighted that this law has helped tens of thousands of people since its implementation.

Elio di rupo (ps): &quot. thanks – Elio di rupo (ps): "thanks

An aborted departure to Berkeley

Acting on people’s daily lives, Elio Di Rupo considers that it is the essence of political life that is in his eyes “a vocation “. And even if he elio di rupo (ps): “thanks has seen several elected officials. “especially second knives, even third knives”who have chosen to use, rather than serving, he considers that such cases do not represent the majority. Even if some things “have done a hard time like the PS “.

“I have never seen my life a wealthy government like that”

This political commitment was not necessarily what. he intended to do with his life. Young chemist researcher at the University of Mons who finished his thesis. he intended to embark for the University of Berkeley in the early 1980s, when Robert Urbain, who was Minister, Senator, deputy and mayor, had finally convinced him to enter the PS. “In his third attempt, I felt that I annoyed him, I ended up saying yes“, Recognizes the Montois. If Robert Urbain then contacted him, it is that the socialist minister Jean-Maurice Dehousse was looking for a collaborator.”He thought I elio di rupo (ps): “thanks had the right profile. I went there and waited for ten hours before he received me. Finally, he asked me to start working for him the next day. I led my first negotiation and got three days. I thought I stayed there for two years. then do something else, but the virus and the passion for politics took me “.

“One day I will tell …”

As this anecdote shows, making politics sometimes amounts to positively touching people’s lives. But it is also making decisions that can have a more negative impact. When asked to return to the exclusion of unemployment for young people decided when he was Prime Minister. he immediately said that the expression “My heart is bleeding “ that he had pronounced at the time was “An error “.” Nevertheless I will one day tell how this measure was decided. But it’s still too elio di rupo (ps): “thanks early … “

This moment at Zaventem airport therefore remains engraved in the memory of Elio Di Rupo. perhaps justifying in his eyes, the long career he will have led from the 80s until today. “”What’s the point of doing politics if it is not to help people? If it is to enrich yourself, go elsewhere. In the private world, just find the beautiful vein. Helping people is our mission, even if it is sometimes misunderstood “he concludes.

“He approaches and said to me: ‘The gendarmerie knew everything … The clues, very early, led to Marc Dutroux …’ I was amazed”