The situation before the 2018 elections is quite different from the two previous ones . In 2006 and 2012 , federal Vice-Premier Laurette Onkelinx led the PS list against the Mayor 's List , overtly hoping to supersede it and take the mayorship . In both elections , the Ecolo list was led by a former federal leader , Isabelle Durant , who chose to keep its alliance with FDF Bernard Clerfayt . In 2017 , both Durant and Onkelinx resigned from the municipal council and there are no notorious followers in sight . PS federal deputy declined the offer to move from Koekelberg to Schaerbeek to replace her . In 2015 , the CDH fraction was halved with the exclusion of Regional deputy , officially for refusing to recognize the existence of the 1915 Armenian Genocide . Another Turkish CDH councillor left the CDH group after this exclusion
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
2018 Belgian local elections