The president of the MR Georges-Louis Bouchez recalled Sunday on RTBF that the freedom of voting on ethical subjects, and thus on the legislative proposal to decriminalize completely the abortion, remained in use at the liberals. The group leader of the Open Vld to the Bedroom Vincent Van Quickenborne has made statements of a similar as soon as Friday on the VRT.

Saturday, the president of the N-VA’s Bart de Wever had said that it was a breaking point in the context of the formation of a federal government. The CD&V had already announced two weeks ago a similar intention.