“On the right has to make a march through the institutions, In order to take over power in science and education ”. These are the words of FVD leader Thierry Baudet, who now finds resonance at different universities. Right -wing student parties, like the bold student party (VSP), carpentry on the road. People want to "free left -wing censorship and indoctrination". No identity politics, Diversity Officers and Cancel Culture. In short, the VSP stands for a self-proclaimed "anti-woke" sound with a strong right-wing-conservative agenda.
A glimpse of the anti-woke sound can be heard in one Movie on X (Previously Twitter) Waar's Marlon Ulsee, Founder of the VSP, and Tom de Nooijer, press chief of the party and presenter at Unheard of the Netherlands, Lucky and semi-nonchalant some questions from the University newspaper Ad Valvas ridicule. The newspaper is talking about the "CIS straight man perspective" and Uljee tries to pronounce it with Grinnik as "kis". In other videos of the party, the goals of World Sustainable Development Goals are ridiculed, as well as switching to vegetarian canteens.
Gender
At a few universities, the VSP also spread stickers with the inscription: "There are only two genders". According to Uljee and Lobke – Meanwhile chosen as representative of the VSP in the Central Student Council and the "Lawyer" Faculty Council in Leiden – the stickers were not meant to intimidate. In an interview with the Leiden University newspaper Mare Uljee clarifies his story with an anecdote that shows that he once "accidentally". However, Uljee does not say that he did it several times and then also made recordings of that person with unheard of the Netherlands. The person in question is therefore intimidated in such a way that he has not been to university for months. Following "there are only two genders", the Rotterdam student party Liberi Erasmi managed to get the number of gender neutral toilets at the university reduce. A striking councilor of Liberi Erasmi is Jaron Buitelaar who at meetings of Voorpost and the Youth Organization Forum for Democracy (JFVD) has been spotted. In '23 he protested against the reading hour of a Dragqueen in Rotterdam.
Cutbacks
The bold student party supports the cutbacks in higher education and do have a solution where they can get the money from. In an opinion piece by Lloyd-Leonard Opdam (Coordinator and party leader of the VSP in Utrecht) the amount of the cutbacks can be removed from climate and other "woke-madness". “There are possibilities for considerable savings by stopping" Woke "projects that have crept into the academic world in recent years. Projects such as decolonization initiatives, diversity offices, gender -neutral facilities, ‘Climate Taskforces’, vegan canteens, pride-events, And the SDGs not only put a financial but also moral pressure on universities “, Thus Opdam. It is the themes where extreme right -wing organizations and political parties and the members of the VSP find each other. And that is not surprising, Because there is an overlap between these three.
Extremely right
In an interview with the Leiden magazine Mare, Marlon Uljee says that the VSP has no trouble with members involved, or have been, With extreme right -wing organizations. For example, the elected VSP faculty council candidate in Utrecht is, Frank van Breukelen, Also chairman of the forum for Democracy (FVD) In the Provincial States of Utrecht.
Van Breukelen also regularly appears with the extreme right-wing organization Great-Dutch Student Association (GNSV) and he will become the chairman of the Utrecht department of the association to be established. Bram van de Kerk is a member of the Faculty Council in Utrecht and he also has a history within the GNSV and the extreme right -wing Geuzenbond. In maart 2025 he was present at a demonstration of the Nationalist Student Association in Ghent where people argued for remigration from foreigners. In addition, he was helping with last December Packing Christmas packages of the Hart voor Eigen Volkpost Foundation. Two other GNSVs are the Leiden VSP candidates Arie (The) Karkalasev en vosmar leijnse. Leijnse was even one of the founders of the GNSV and an important activist of the Geuzenbond.
Overlap
The face of the bold student party in Utrecht is determined by Manon Vianen, among others. Vianen has been a friend of JFVD founder Freek Jansen for some time and she has been spotted several times at JFVD meetings. Thomas de Groot, candidate for the VSP at the VU University Amsterdam, was even a councilor for FvD in Dijk en Waard. Another striking name on the VSP candidate list in Leiden is Tristen Strijkert.
He received at the JFVD congress 2018 One de Cohn Bendit-Wisselbeker and a stack of books by Thierry Baudet and Theo Hiddema. This in response to his high school teacher who had given him a book about rising fascism because of his membership of the JFVD. In his short speech, Strijkert says that there is more connection between GroenLinks and fascism than between JFVD and fascism. Strijkert has also been a member of the Board of Young Clintel for years. This youth department of lobbying organization Clintel wants to inform young people about climate change and continuously sows skepticism about the origin and consequences of climate change. Also the chairman of the young Fortuynists, Stef Kleine Staarman, is involved in the VSP. He was in 2025 Exhibited for the VSP at the VU University in Amsterdam, but is not chosen. Kleine Staarman also stood a candidate for the importance of the Netherlands, An off-shoot from Forum for Democracy led by Wybren van Haga.
Management
Not only the candidates have an overlap to right -wing parties or conservative organizations. VSP board members also have this commitment. Founder and chairman Marlon Uljee stood in 2022 Candidate for FvD in the Almere city council. In addition, Uljee also appeared at meetings of the JFVD and he is cheerfully shaking hands in the photo with Ian Goethals of the extreme right -wing organization Catholic Flemish High Studies Verbond. Tom de Nooijer, The press chief of the VSP, is a presenter at Unheard of the Netherlands. He is the party leader of Christian Association Oldebroek in Oldebroek. De Nooijer previously had to board the youth department of the SGP Because he was the center of racist riot and his admiration for Thierry Baudet did not hide. The Utrecht coordinator of the VSP and the man for the international contacts is Lloyd-Leonard Opdam. Among other things, he conducted a campaign for JA21, A spin -off from FvD. In addition, Opdam is active in activities of the conservative-right organization Nieuwrechts.nl. Laura Oorschot, VSP coordinator in Amsterdam, started her career as a candidate councilor for the VVD in Amstelveen. She was a presenter for BLCKBX TV, An online channel for "alternative news", but has there in April 2025 resigned as a protest against the dismissing of founder Flavio Pasquino. She now works for Lighthouse TV, The new channel of Pasquino.
Another striking link is the fact that the VSP has supplied an article for the party magazine of the JFVD; Dissident. Number 4 May the board tell about their struggle and there is also a call to become a member of the VSP.
Intervene
The success of the VSP during the university elections must be viewed with some nuances. One of the reasons why the VSP won many seats in 2024 was the low turnout, sometimes 10% van de stemmen. With a few hundred dedicated people you soon have a nice result. A higher turnout in the elections 2025 At the VU University in Amsterdam ensured that the number of seats of the VSP was halved, From four to two. (Incidentally, one of those seats went to Eva Vlaardingerbroek's brother: Reinout) . Another reason was the lack of counter candidates, As was the case on some faculties.
What the VSP has succeeded, Is creating a platform where conspiracy theories and extreme right -wing thoughts can be ventilated. For example, the VSP is also to the “Alternative University of, among others, Willem Engel Been in the Ardennes. Their elected candidates also have some influence, Because on some files, these parties can simply join the Minister of Education. And with the current government, the opinion of the VSP might be given weight. The "right march through the Institutions" by Baudet is slowly taking shape and it would therefore be nice if university authorities finally intervene to stop the extreme right -wing ideas.
Post Script
The elections in Groningen did not yield any seats for the VSP. At the UvA there was also no seat for Tom de Nooijer or others in the student council. However, two seats in Faculty Councils of the UvA have been brought in. The VSP scored in Leiden 1 seat in the student council and two seats on faculty councils, one of which is for Arie (Wancho) Karkalasev. In Utrecht, the VSP loss suffered and only has 1 seat, it is occupied by Lloyd-Leonard Opdam. Here too, the extreme right has been given a seat on a faculty council; Bram van de Kerk will be active for the VSP for the second year.
