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.
How many party members did Forum for Democracy have on 1 January 2019? This seemingly easy question causes serious problems for Thierry Baudet's party, now enter the membership administration 2018 turns out to have been a mess. The subsidy for Forum is at stake.
Last week, Forum for Democracy announced that three members have been expelled. This in connection with far-right and anti-Semitic statements in an app group. The measure followed a publication by HP / De Tijd in which screenshots were shown of the offending statements by members of the FVD in app group "Drinks DVD".
Op 8 May 2018 Van Dale promoted the word "incel" as the word of the day, after just before Alek Minassian killed ten people in Toronto. He stated that the act should kick off a so-called incel revolution, the word incel comes from involuntary celibate (involuntarily celibate).
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.
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.
FVD MP Thierry Baudet has - according to those directly involved - at least twice made a flight in the private jet of a Dutch businessman. Destination was including Ibiza, where the well-known Club Lio was visited. both flights, having a value of several thousand euros, FVD the MP did not mention the gifts- or travel record of the House. The spokesman Baudet speaks of a 'private matter'.
Again gets elected representatives of Forum for Democracy on Henk Otten, at the FVD left politician who now wants to set up their own party. It is Cornelis van den Berg who is in the Flevoland province in the Provincial FVD.
Senator Henk Otten, was disbarred last month as a member of the Forum for Democracy, Forum takes two senators to his new political party. Otten retweette at the beginning of the night an article about it in The Telegraph, which was the first report on the issue.
Nine out of ten offshoots of political parties spend an inglorious end. And we will also need political scientists pollster Maurice de Hond serious doubts whether "the hole on the right" where Henk Otten and his associates on target, bestaat. His chances of success for Democracy Forum for electoral 'empty suck', seem limited.
What the mud fight between Thierry Baudet and Henk Otten especially reveals, Forum that will not only bring political change to democracy since its inception, but also seems to act as a source of income for the party leadership.
INTERVIEW – Their lingering feud is certainly: Thierry Baudet has put Henk Otten from Forum of Democracy, after allegations of fraud. Otten denies. ,,Baudet just wants to destroy me. "
Harry Mens’ Business Class is not known as the most relevant talk show from Netherlands, nevertheless chose Democracy Forum last season remarkably often for Sunday institute. Why So?
To defuse the argument in the party Forum for Democracy, is co-founder Henk Otten completely sidetracked put. He may, to humble apologies, stay, but no leader in the Senate.
Henk Otten was guilty of a handle in the greenhouse 'Forum for Democracy, or the party blew the internal issue to deal definitively with the bickering board?
Thierry Baudet, through Twitter co-founder of Forum for Democracy, Henk Otten, The guard told the employee. The power struggle within the young party, which came out on top in the last elections as the largest in the Netherlands, approaching a boiling point.
The second man of Forum for Democracy, Henk Otten, from strong criticism of Thierry Baudet. That would take "too far to the right 'party. The long-simmering divisions within the party puts FVD for a new stress test.
Especially former VVD, often also entrepreneurs, after 27 May for Forum for Democracy (FVD) sit in the Senate.
Provincial Council elections. For the Provincial Council elections vist Forum for Democracy in many private pond.
The fast growing Forum for Democracy is anything but a one-man show.
MPs Thierry Baudet and Theo Hiddema Forum for Democracy hold a meeting Monday in Nieuwegein. They want to thank the voters in Central Netherlands for their support.