The political debate in Belgium in the last 24 hours it has… ignited around the participation of the head of the francophone party MR, Georges-Louis Boucher in reality show.
The show is called “Special Forces: Who Dare Wins” and as the Brussels Times explains, it features 11 celebrities – including singers, actors and athletes – who attend a six-day training in the Moroccan desert to join the special forces, the elite unit of the Belgian army.
Although several French-language newspapers have questioned the increasing exposure of politicians on Flemish television ahead of the 2024 elections, criticism of Bouchet has focused heavily on how his special forces training revealed his true character, the Brussels Times notes. “A seemingly cocky daddy’s boy who, during his military training tests, fared almost to the point of parody”Flemish newspaper De Morgen reports, noting that at first, the other contestants still found him amusing, but no one was laughing at the end.
Georges-Louis Boucher is not the first politician to appear on an entertainment program. Flemish socialist leader Conner Rousseau was hidden in a rabbit suit in The Masked Singer, Interior Minister Annelie Verlinden traveled to Greece for the show Viva La Feta and Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborn spent four days in jail for “Recht naar de gesellschaft”. .
Source: News Beast
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