Fouad Ahidar was elected as a Brussels MP in 2004 for sp.a, later known as Vooruit. He held a leading position in the party and was party leader. After Vooruit party chairman Conner Rousseau was charged with making racist statements,[1] Ahidar resigned from the party in December 2023.[2] In February 2024, he announced that he would present his own list in the Dutch-speaking electoral college in Brussels for the 2024 regional elections.[3]
Despite being nominally a bilingual and cross-community party, Team Fouad Ahidar presented candidates in only the Dutch-speaking electoral college in Brussels and for the Flemish parliament.
2024 elections
In the elections for the Brussels Parliament on June 9, 2024, the party obtained 16.47% of the votes and three seats with Fouad Ahidar, Najima El Arbaoui[nl] and Ilyas El Omari (1989)[nl] in the Dutch language group. This made Team Fouad Ahidar the second largest faction on the Dutch-speaking side, after Groen. In addition, the party obtained 17.97% and one of the six seats with M'Hamed Kasmi[nl] in the electoral area of the Brussels members of the Flemish Parliament.
After the election, Vooruit MP Hannelore Goeman[nl] claimed that the party's success was based on "fake news and lies".[4] The Reformist Movement and DéFI both stated they would not form a Brussels government with Team Fouad Ahidar, effectively relegating the party to opposition.[5]
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