RUCPHEN – Her unconditional loyalty to the PVV made Brigitte Clercx decide to come up with an explanation only after the parliamentary elections why she left the Rucphense faction. ,,Fortunately, the elections in our municipality went well, once again PVV is the largest party."
The Public Prosecution Service will investigate whether criminal offenses were committed during the Forum for Democracy meeting in Utrecht. For example, the corona rules could have been violated and statements by FvD leader Thierry Baudet are being tested. Mayor Sharon Dijksma said this on Thursday evening during question time in the city council.
Aafke Romeijn from Utrecht is being bullied and harassed by a 'troll army' of mainly extreme right-wing parties to such an extent that she disabled her Twitter account yesterday. Her identity has been stolen for years, she gets cannonades at her head and the bullies know where to find her private address, she says.
Contrary to previous expectations, Forum for Democracy has grown rapidly. Who should occupy all seats in the House of Representatives??
Amsterdam – Vlaams Cultuurhuis De Brakke Grond in the Nes gets a leading member of Vlaams Belang on its board: Dimitri Hoegaerts.
EDAM – “I wonder if it is not punishable”, GroenLinks party chairman Nico van Straalen says. The personal data of Van Straalen from Edam was put on Twitter yesterday by Forum for Democracy leader Thierry Baudet. Van Straalen is chairman of GroenLinks in the municipal council of Edam-Volendam and active as a member of a polling station in his municipality.
ENSCHEDE – Saxion teacher Harrie Kiekebosch received a storm of criticism on Twitter last weekend, after tweets about Geert Wilders.
The Forum of Democracy is currently holding a meeting on the Grote Markt to which hundreds of people have come. Among them is Arend Glas, no stranger to Stad en Ommeland. Arend participated in the Olympic Games as a bobsleigher on behalf of the Netherlands, has been rubbing against the extreme right for years, manages the social media account of Studiegenootschap Erkenbrand Noord-Nederland, injects many times in a day when traditional media is a lie press and today violently attacks a counter-demonstrator.
What makes orthodox Christians susceptible to radical and populist ideas? Sander Rietveld, raised Calvinistically, researched the funding of politicians such as Trump and Baudet. He wrote a book about the culture war that has spread from Christian America to the Netherlands since the 1970s.
A candidate on the Forum for Democracy election list, Ab Kuijer (place 31), deals in far-reaching conspiracy theories on his website and Twitter account. For example, he suggests that Prime Minister Mark Rutte is a pedophile and that billionaires George Soros and Bill Gates are behind the corona pandemic.
Research – Women in politics meet more hatred. Ten percent of all tweets directed at female politicians contain hatred or aggression, according to research together with the Utrecht Data School. Women entering the political arena can count on online reviews about their vote, body, religion or skin color. Political parties fear that young women will shy away from it.
For stalking his ex-girlfriend, Almelo councilor Patricia Pol, PVV councilor Tom Kuilder from Emmen has been sentenced to fifty hours community service. Kuilder sent in October and November 2019 and in March last year a large number of messages to Pol.
The Prosecution (ABOUT) Central Netherlands starts a criminal investigation into Thierry Baudet's visit to Urk. Despite all the corona measures, the party leader of the Forum for Democracy shook hands with many Urkers on Tuesday and ate a fish in a restaurant with his campaign team.
The Ministry of the Interior will look into whether Thierry Baudet has broken the law by calling on his voters to arrange proxies for the upcoming parliamentary elections. Recruiting votes is a criminal offense.
Verkiezingsprogramma – The army must be deployed against “Islamic street scum, with a fur collar and dual nationality ”, but not in farmers' protests with tractors, is reading
Forum for Democracy Party Leader Thierry Baudet said during a private conversation that he feared the so-called power of Jews in the "world order". Anonymous former FvD members claim this in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
There has been a fuss on social media about a statement by Forum for Democracy leader Thierry Baudet during an election meeting in Gouda. In answering a question from the audience, the politician questioned the legitimacy of the historic trial of Nazi leaders, after the Second World War in Nuremberg.
Due to the death of his dog, something snapped in the head of the Dordrecht terror suspect Floris N. The 41-year-old stated this on Monday in the extra-secure court of Rotterdam. He first appeared there on suspicion of preparing or threatening terrorist offences. ,,I'm not a bad person", he told the judges from the terrorist wing in the prison of Vught.
He understands that his online texts come across as terrible, but fight to be a bad person. A 40-year-old man from Dordrecht had to appear in court today, partly because he threatened politicians and police officers on social media. He has been detained in the terrorist department of the prison in Vught since December.
Forum for Democracy is the largest party in the Netherlands according to its own count, with more than 45.000 leden. But scientists seriously question whether this is true. ,,Given the fuss around the party, an increase in the number of members is not at all as expected. ""
The international character of the corona pandemic offers the extreme right in Europe an opportunity to grow. The Netherlands seems to have gotten away with it. ,,We are not Poland or Germany. ""
RUCPHEN – Councilor Brigitte Clercx immediately leaves the Rucphense PVV fraction and continues solo. Why she does that? Her former party members also say that they do not know, but are in any case not happy with the action. She herself refuses to comment on her decision "until after the elections".
Turkey starts a judicial investigation into PVV leader Geert Wilders for insulting President Erdogan. That research has to do with Twitter messages from Wilders.
Thierry Baudet almost earned last year 75.000 euros for the sale of his books, but did not report this to the Lower House. This is evident from research by NU.nl.
Research | Member of Parliament Dion Graus, since 2006 MP for the PVV, is eligible for re-election in March - he is number thirteen of his party. But with the National Criminal Investigation Department there is an incriminating file.