(AP) Belgium’s center-right government is fighting for its survival this week after the largest coalition party broke away from its three partners and said it would not back a global U.N.-backed migration pact.
The right-wing N-VA party started a social media campaign against the migration pact Tuesday, more than two months after Prime Minister Charles Michel pledged he would sign the pact for Belgium at a meeting next week in Marrakech, Morocco.
Instead of a coalition breakup, Michel announced late Tuesday he would take the issue to parliament for vote in the days to come.
“I want parliament to have its say,” Michel said, staving off an immediate collapse of the government that has been in power for three years.
