Court Rejects Provisional Administrator for Belgian Muslim Executive Body Amid Leadership Dispute

A setback for the EMB members who had seized the Brussels Business Court in summary proceedings to have a provisional administrator appointed. In their request, they had denounced a situation where five members had "gradually and irregularly arrogated all the powers and rights", a "totally opaque and illegal management". On Thursday, the Interim Chamber ruled on the case. In its order, it acknowledges that "the totality of the decisions taken at the general meeting of June 26, 2019 obviously proceeds from the will of the 5 members to oust the other members by illegally excluding them definitively from the management", reports Le Soir.

These 5 members have "very clearly acted in violation of the rights of the other members" and modified the statutes of the EMB when the necessary quorum was clearly not met, it added. They also "concentrated in their sole hands all the powers vested in the general meeting and by the same token reserving the exclusivity of the director’s mandates". However, the court refuses to appoint a provisional administrator of the EMB, considering that the required conditions were not met: the disputes, raised for the first time in December 2020, are not urgent.

According to the court, the request to appoint an administrator would not make it possible to avoid or limit the damage, given the definitive nature of the amendment of the statutes.