Former Qatargate judge Michel Claise may run in the Belgian elections, local media La Libre reported on Saturday.
Claise, an investigating judge who recused himself in mid-2023 from the European Parliament corruption probe, may join the federal list of Défi, a French-speaking centrist party with two seats in Belgium’s federal parliament. Claise declined to comment when contacted by La Libre, according to the report.
The Défi party’s first candidates for the federal and region of Brussels elections are set to be officially announced on January 10.
Meanwhile, the Belgian liberals in the MR party including European Council President Charles Michel and EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders will meet on Sunday and are expected to decide on their list for the European election.
<img src="https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-loaded/v1/wKcbPL9G-dxi5M6MdcJlGXn9ye8UNv30" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="The morning read for Wednesday, May 28" title="The morning read for Wednesday, May 28"> <p>Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read:</p> <ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-asks-supreme-court-remove-court-ordered-restrictions/story?id=122247796">Trump asks Supreme Court to remove judge-ordered restrictions on 3rd country deportations</a> (Devin Dwyer, ABC News)</li> <li><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/supreme-court-two-genders-t-shirt/">Supreme Court declines case about T-shirt declaring ‘only two genders’</a> (Justin Jouvenal, The Washington Post)</li> <li><a href="https://natlawreview.com/article/first-amendment-front-and-center-scotus-today">The First Amendment, Front and Center – SCOTUS Today</a> (Stuart M. Gerson, The National Law Review) </li> <li><a href="https://www.nysun.com/article/justices-gorsuch-and-thomas-honor-the-apache">Justices Gorsuch and Thomas Honor the Apache</a> (The New York Sun) </li> <li><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/supreme-courts-free-speech-v-paxton-decision-could-protect-kids-online-opinion-2075460">Supreme Court’s Free Speech v. Paxton Decision Could Protect Kids Online</a> (Clare Morell, Newsweek) </li>
</ul> <p><strong>Coming up:</strong> Tomorrow, May 29, the court expects to issue one or more opinions from the current term. We’ll be live at 9:30 a.m. EDT that day for the opinions.</p>
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