Daems believes his country will not split.
"If you ask any Flemish-speaking person whom do you like most, the Dutch or the Walloons, they will tell you the Walloons," he said.
"If you ask Wallonian people do they prefer the French or the Flemish, they will say the Flemish," he said.
"Although we are culturally different, we can stay together if we respect people's differences," Daems said.
"The political management of any country should evolve, it is never over" he said.
Brussels probably acts as the greatest block to a full separation serving as a capital three times over: to Flanders, Belgium and to Europe, as host to the EU and NATO.
Lawyers and politicians agree that it would be a logistical nightmare to divide Belgium neatly thanks to the city of Brussels. It is entirely surrounded by Flanders.
But there is a deeper reason why Brussels acts as a glue. Most of the Belgian elite hope that the EU will one day turn into a political union.
As he dwells on his political future, Daems believes that his greatest crime in the eyes of opponents was not to fall for a Walloon but for a Socialist.
"If two people love each other language doesn't mean anything anywhere else in the world, so why should it mean something here?" he says.
"That doesn't have anything to do with it. But our parties are opposite on quite a number of political issues" he says.
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