Visit before the election campaign Geert Wilders the city Breda to hand out flyers. Also the Brabant PVV-foreman Alexander van Hattem is here. A sympathizer says to a newspaper: “I also think that headscarves should be banned and the burqa completely“. A group of activists from Pegida hooks up with the PVV-action and demonstratively dons a burqa to demonstrate against this clothing. The Pegida group contains about ten activists Edwin Wagensveld, Hugo Kuijper, José Kuipers en Ellen Kuipers and they hand out flyers. They have sewn texts on their burqas like: “no islam, just freedom” en “A burqa is an upholstered corporal punishment“.
In Den Bosch the Provincial Council of the PVV questions about Islam. The party responds to a visit from children in Roosendaal to a mosque. De PVV gives some examples of this “Islamic indoctrination” and states that tens of thousands of people from Brabant are threatened in their immediate living environment by the provincial government, because they are involuntarily forced upon them. The party wants to stop any support for Islamic organizations. The questions are asked by the members of Parliament Louis Roks en Alexander van Hattem and they call Islam one “malicious ideology“. They want to stop the subsidy of an involved sports organization. There is criticism from States members of other parties on the PVV. The questions of the PVV would indicate “straightforward fascism“. The provincial government later replied fiercely that the questions “improper and inappropriate” because they ask to distinguish on the basis of religion.
In Uden the municipality has organized a debate about the arrival of an asylum seekers center. The North Brabant PVV-Staten Joyce Kardol calls the debate a great farce. Due to the structure of the meeting, it would be up to ‘fake participation‘ leiden. According to Kardol and her colleague Alexander van Hattem the residents were informed too late. De PVV sees nothing in the reception of asylum seekers and would prefer to close the borders.
De PVV holds an afternoon directory action Eindhoven. A resident who receives a folder does not appreciate the PVV and runs behind the angry folderaar to, scolds him and kicks him in his rear. De PVV wants to make a declaration, but the police here actually no appetite. party leader Alexander van Hattem is angry with the police and the attacker.
The local department of FNV Bergen op Zoom has the Brabant Provincial Group PVV invited for an election, this Thursday. They are stopped by the national FNV, the de PVV not calling after anti-Moroccan statements. The local department FNV pulls this invitation to PVV again in. party leader Alexander van Hattem is furious and speaks of “pure discrimination”.
In the Provincial House of North Brabant Den Bosch has the PVV a grassroots evening organized in the framework of the Council elections. Staten Alexander van Hattem is the speaker.