The split of three members of the House of Representatives already seemed old news at the first Forum manifestation after the split today. The message from party leader Baudet is:: The fight against the corona policy continues. ,,And we're not going to argue."
Jeroen de Vries (rechts) in the Senate with Henk Otten. The former Forum voor Democracy spokesperson followed Otten after his split from the party. He now claims the vacant FvD seat in the Groninger States for Groep Otten.
He had been in doubt about his membership in the Forum for Democracy for some time (FVD), but the news about anti-Semitic language in FvD app groups gave for Member of Parliament Chilion Pike (30) the deciding factor from Balkbrug. Pike goes the party GO (group Otten) in the Overijssel States.
Despite fierce resistance in its own ranks, the CDA in Brabant is heading for a lecture with Forum for Democracy. Baudet's party was astonished in March 2019 friend and foe by becoming the greatest in the state elections. How do the more than eighty FvD'ers, often without political experience, done it in their first year?
Transfer news. Former LPF Member of Parliament (and that party's last leader) and also ex-MEP for the PVV Olaf Stuger switches to GO from Henk Otten.
Zembla will reveal Thursday the cordial ties between Thierry Baudet and Russia. Was this a "running gag", as Baudet claims, or has the FVD leader indirectly received money from Moscow?
Ewald Kegel, Member of Parliament for Forum for Democracy in South Holland, immediately joined GO, the party of the disbarred FvD co-founder Henk Otten. GO announces this via Twitter. Kegel joins Caroline Persenaire in South Holland, who left the Forum in September last year.
An election-free year does not mean that no candidate representatives are in tension. If the United Kingdom and Gibraltar European Union membership referendum later this month finally, finally a reality, Netherlands gets three additional seats in the European Parliament.
Henk Otten booked with Thierry Baudet an overwhelming election victory. With his new party 'Go’ Otten tries now as senator a different course in store. “I think the Forum has become too radical.”
For Congress it is too early, Party meetings are not, anyway there are only members. What is not so strange to choose as new members between a contribution 100, 250 of 500 euro. "That conscious, we want to focus on recruitment ', Henk Otten will later give statement.
She was politically active for D66 and has held senior positions as risk manager at ProRail, Achmea and Nationale Nederlanden. Forum for Democracy would go Dorien Rookmaker the Senate, but if the freshly elected senators Tuesday return from the summer break, find Hattemse (55) itself in the Chamber Benches in the divisional Group Otten.