Benoemingen Grondwettelijk Hof: Vlaams Belang hekelt “business as usual” door N-VA
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Vandaag werd door de senaat in de persoon van Thierry Detienne dan toch een Ecolo-politicus aangesteld tot rechter in het Grondwettelijk Hof. Eerdere pogingen daartoe waarbij Ecolo-kopstuk Zakia Khattabi de kandidaat was, liepen steevast op de klippen door het gezamenlijke verzet van Vlaams Belang en N-VA. In tegenstelling tot deze eerdere mislukte benoemingspogingen was het Vlaams Belang ditmaal de enige partij die zich verzette tegen deze aanstelling. “Onze partij betreurt dan ook dat N-VA in een ‘business as usual-modus’ is overgeschakeld wat de aanstelling van politici als rechters in het Grondwettelijk Hof betreft”, klinkt het.
De reden voor het aanhoudende verzet van het Vlaams Belang moet niet zozeer in personenkwesties worden gezocht, maar wel in het feit dat zij van oordeel is dat politici niet thuishoren in een rechtscollege. “Wij zijn daar, in tegenstelling tot anderen, heel consequent in”, zegt fractieleider in de senaat Guy D’haeseleer (Vlaams Belang). “PVDA vindt dat zogezegd ook, maar draait wel mee in de benoemingscarrousel als het een kandidaat van linkse strekking betreft. En N-VA van haar kant zet kennelijk alleen maar de voet dwars als de voorgedragen persoon hun niet aanstaat. Voor hen is het nu blijkbaar opnieuw ‘business as usual’.”
Guy D’haeseleer: “een gepolitiseerd Grondwettelijk Hof hoort niet thuis in een democratische rechtsstaat”
Volgens het Vlaams Belang is een democratisch land immers absoluut niet gediend met een gepolitiseerd Grondwettelijk Hof. Het ondergraaft volgens de partij het gezag van dit Hof en de geloofwaardigheid van zijn arresten en zet de poort open naar gepolitiseerde rechtspraak. Dat is iets wat, aldus Vlaams Belang, een democratische rechtsstaat niet kan verdragen.
“Het is dus jammer,” zo meent D’haeseleer tenslotte, “dat de N-VA vandaag haar kazak heeft gedraaid, want de gebeurtenissen van het voorbije halve jaar hebben aangetoond dat wanneer we onze krachten bundelen, wij de mogelijkheid in handen hebben om dit onzindelijke politieke benoemingssysteem van rechters uit de wereld te helpen. Samen zouden we de politiek kunnen dwingen om het Grondwettelijk Hof grondig te depolitiseren. Waar is de politieke moed van N-VA hierbij?”