The former face of the Belgian investigation into Qatargate which shook the European Parliament move on to politics. About six months after his decision to leave the investigation following the accusations of conflict of interest due to affairs between your son and that of one of the MPs involved, Maria Arena, Michel Claisewho retired on January 1st, has decided to run in the national elections in June Belgium with the federal list in Brussels of the Défi party, Federalist Democratic Party.
The former magistrate announced his entry into the field from the columns of The eveningexplaining that he “feels dissatisfied with our society’s agenda in relation to fight against financial crime and the destruction of justice.” His objective, he specified, is in fact to “fight against the rise of criminal power”. “We need a Marshall plan for justicewe must stop talking about the judicial institution and start talking about judicial power – he told journalists – And it’s not just this, we must understand the word ‘justice’ in the broadest sense of the term, we must bring justice closer to citizenship”.
Claise was also asked what reforms he considers priorities and among these he cited “a reform of the institutions that allows us to counteract the recycling of money and corruption and the creation of an anti-corruption agency Belgian model taking the French model as an example”.