On the beard, again...

It looks like I might actually lose it sooner than I was thinking in my previous blog post, a few days ago.

On the 18th, Formateur Elio di Rupo had written a proposed document on which to start negotiations. Most parties agreed to that, except for N-VA and CD&V. Unfortunately, that was enough to make further negotiations useless, so di Rupo had offered his resignation as formateur to the King, who kept his response "under advisement". I thought I was going to end up like Andrew.

Since he wasn't formally ex-formateur yet, however, he continued working. And today, merely a few days later, with an extra proposal—and perhaps also partly due to the King's angry speech for today's national holiday—CD&V has now been persuaded to join the negotiations. It's been over fourhundred days, and far too many weirdos, but they're actually sitting down to talk. Like, right now.

I'll hold off on buying those razor blades for now, but we might yet get there.