Amsterdam: Verkiezingen 2014

As usual, the Amsterdam welcomes voter is a bombardment of candidate lists. All kinds of splinter factions make a bid for the apparently coveted council seat. The counter is this year at a whopping 27 parties. Gay Discrimination Delano Felter (1967) seems no chance with his one-man list of Republican Political Party. Especially since he was four years ago in liberal Amsterdam… Read more

Flevoland: Verkiezingen 2014

Almere There are only two municipalities in the Netherlands where the far-right Freedom Party joins. In Almere, not everyone is happy with this honor. The party has no major surprises on the candidate or the election. They write that environmental, that focuses on sustainability, its subsidy going to lose and that children… Read more

Province of Friesland: Verkiezingen 2014

On Ameland Ameland has joined a new party with the difficult name “Enterprising Christian Labour Party” (CAO party). In the program one breaks a lance for hunters, farmers and fishermen by European regulations, that protects the environment and the animals, feel hampered. It is most pronounced position of a party which further… Read more

Province of Drenthe: Verkiezingen 2014

Axes and De Wolden The new game Decisive Netherlands does in two counties along Drenthe. The founder Koos Visser (1959) Rolled out. After his son was beaten last year by Moroccan youth together, he started a facebook page “Dutch Offensive”, against violence. He acknowledged in the newspaper that the initiative nationalistic and even… Read more

Province of North Brabant: Verkiezingen 2014

Bergen op Zoom Party leader Ton Linssen (1952) his party list Linssen has often defends himself. He claims that his party is not racist or extreme right. As alderman works Linssen in Bergen op Zoom along with a broad coalition with VVD and PvdA. Are at the Table Linssen both renegade SP members like Wilders fans welcome,… Read more

Wilders maakt nieuwe vrienden

a glance at the PVV of Wilders demonstration 21 september 2013 Onlangs ging Geert Wilders samenwerkingsverbanden aan met een aantal Europese partijen, met zeer extremistische denkbeelden, een antisemitische achterban en een geschiedenis van geweld en nazisme. De vraag is of die internationale koerswijziging ook een effect heeft op zijn Nederlandse achterban. The demonstration of the… Read more