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It was still uncertain whether he would come, but former minister Caspar Veldkamp showed his face at the NSC congress this afternoon. He was received with loud applause. “The more you fight each other here the tent about a conflict there, the less you can contribute to a solution,” said Veldkamp, who left at the end of August out of dissatisfaction with the Israel policy of the government. The rest of the NSC-Smal part followed. Veldkamp wishes his successor “the very best” and is willing to help “where necessary”.
Chairman of the European People’s Party present at CDA Congress Manfred Weber, the chairman of the European People’s Party (EVP), is present today at the CDA party congress. The Christian Democratic Party is part of the EPP group in the European Parliament. “Manfred, as the leader of the European People’s Party, is your mission to throw a dam against autocratic leaders and populist politics in Europe,” party chairman Henri Bontebal turned to Weber.
Earlier this summer the German politician said that the EVP is “the stability factor within the EU project”. With that he responded to a motion of no confidence against committee chairman and party member Ursula von der Leyen. That motion was submitted by radical-right parties, but rejected by a majority.
“Land craves for normal and civilized politicians, says Bontenbal at Congress according to CDA leader Henri Bontenbal” our country craves normal and civilized politicians who work together again to solve problems. ” He calls it in his speech at the party congress “our assignment” and the “DNA of the CDA”.
Bontenbal indicates that party members gathered “in an optimistic atmosphere”. According to him, the CDA is doing well. That was different in recent years. In the 2023 elections, the party only reached five seats. According to recent polls, the CDA could count on 22 to 26 seats in October.
In his speech, the party leader says he does not want to look back on “the chaos in The Hague”. He looks ahead and wants to put the home seekers first. According to him, the CDA also stands for asylum measures that “are well put together and implementable”, because “the current intake is beyond the capacity of society”.
The VVD election congress was also started in Den Bosch. Party leader Dilan Yesilgöz felt the pressure increase in recent weeks because her party sank into the polls. At the congress there is a vote on the list of candidates and the election program.
Political reporter Priscilla Slomp is today at the CDA congress in Rotterdam, which started this morning at 10 am with the Wilhelmus. The members will now deal with hundreds of amendments in part sessions. These are proposals of adjustments to the election program.
NSC’er draws the motion of no confidence at the last minute in the motion of no confidence against NSC chairman Kilian Wawoe has been withdrawn again. NSC member Sander Nieman does not put the motion to the vote to protect the party.
There was a lot of fuss around the motion. The board threatened to step up and warned that the election participation might be compromised. The latter turned out to be different. But according to Nieman, the reaction was “enough to show why that motion is justified”.
But after participation of other members and a response in which Wawoe recognized his mistakes and apologies offer Nieman withdrew his motion.
Members NSC decide at Congress on Lot Board The members of NSC also meet today at the general members’ meeting of the party. On the agenda is the vote on a motion of no confidence that has been submitted against party chairman Kilian Wawoe. If that motion is adopted, the entire board threatens to step up.
With the motion, NSC members want to keep Wawoe responsible for the “disastrous policy” of the party chairman. It is a crisis within the party, which was founded two years ago by Pieter Omtzigt to bring administrative renewal in The Hague.
Multiple figureheads within the party, including former party leader Nicolien van Vroonhoven, already announced their departure. Moreover, if the board boards, the party could not hand in a list of candidates. NSC leader Eddie van Hijum called that problem “soluble” and says that NSC will participate in the elections anyway.
Crowded political Saturday with several election congresses, there are several election conferences on the planning today. The members of VVD, CDA, NSC, ChristenUnie and JA21 meet in the run -up to the elections over a month and a half. Election programs and candidate lists are set at the congresses, among other things.
In particular, the congresses of VVD and CDA are followed with interest, because the VVD has fallen further and further in polls in recent weeks and the CDA is climbing. Disappointed VVD people seek salvation from ‘reliable’ CDA leader Bontenbal, according to the polls.
VVD hopes for CDA, no rapprochement between Timmermans and Yesilgöz a new cabinet for Christmas? During the debate about the second fall of the cabinet, it was suggested by a few at the end of August. But those words no longer echo in the first week after the summer recess.
Jetten feels little for the center-right coalition of Yesilgöz Jetten feels little for the “center-right coalition” that VVD leader Dilan Yesilgöz suggested, he said at the presentation of the election program. Yesilgöz would like a coalition with Ja21 and BBB, where D66 or the CDA could also be added to her. “I want to say to her: you have had your right -wing coalition and you have made a mess of it.”
The D66 leader mainly wants to collaborate with “the positive forces” in politics. He explicitly does not count on Yesilgöz. He blames her for putting Yesilgöz GroenLinks-PvdA as a radical party that is bad for the country.
D66 program: cutting in costs AOW and basic amount for everyone D66 wants to cut the AOW by no longer automatically growing with the minimum wage, according to the election program presented on Friday. The mortgage interest deduction must also be phased out as far as D66 is concerned and there will be a basic amount for everyone.
Disappointed VVD people seek their salvation at ‘reliable’ Bontenbal Ipsos I&O sees especially that the VVD loses seats to the CDA and JA21. The criticism of voters focuses on party leader Dilan Yesilgöz. She appears “bad” in the media, the research agency writes. Disappointed VVD people therefore prefer to go to the “reliable” and “quiet” CDA leader Henri Bontenbal.
Parallel to the poor polls, the rate of Yesilgöz also falls. From a 6.2 end of 2023 to a 3.9 now. Only 6 percent of voters indicate at Ipsos I&O that they vote for the VVD because of the party leader. “The lowest of all parties,” said the investigation.
The rise in the PVV in the poll of Ipsis I&O (from 27 to 31 in a month) is not due to the murder of Lisa. Party leader Wilders made it a big point that the suspect is an asylum seeker. Reducing asylum migration is the most important reason to vote for the PVV, the respondents say.
Trends in the polls: VVD drops further, CDA continues to rise The VVD makes a dive in the polls. This is according to recent studies from EenVandaag and from Ipsos I&O. At the polling guide, based on both polls, the VVD is at 14 to 18 virtual seats. Considerably less than the 24 that the party now has in the room. The CDA continues to rise (now 22 to 26 seats) and is approaching GL-PvdA. The left -wing merger party hardly moves in the [polls (23 to 27). The PVV of Wilders, just like now, remains the largest party in the room in the room: 29 to 35 seats (37 in the room).
Furthermore, it is striking that NSC Vcirtual has disappeared. The party that arrived with 20 seats new into the room in 2023 is now at 0 to 1 seat. It is also not quiet around NSC for a moment. Party leader Eddy van Hijum has to explain that NSC is ‘just’ participating in the elections.
D66 wants new polder and city between Amsterdam and Almere D66 wants a new city for 126,000 people in the IJmeer between Amsterdam and Almere. That is stated in the election program that the party presents this week, reports ANP news agency. An area of 2,500 hectares must be reclaimed for this. The party estimates the costs at around 20 billion euros.
‘IJtad’, as D66 has mentioned the new city for the time being, must offer space for 60,000 homes. The construction must contribute to solving the “gigantic” housing shortage. It will be “a modern, compact city with a mix of urban construction and lots of green”. In total, ten new cities will have to be added in the coming decades.
D66 wants to develop ten new homes, including on meadows. Sometimes it must be a large district or the big expansion of a village. “Sometimes it will really be totally new homes such as Eemvallei in South Felvoland.”
Board NSC threatens with boarding, but the party is ‘just’ participating in elections The board of NSC threatens to resign if NSC members support a motion of no confidence against their chairman on Saturday. Leader Eddy Van Hijum denies that this may put the election participation of the party in danger.
Sandra Palmen is no longer eligible for NSC Sandra Palmen remains State Secretary Recovery and Surcharges, but does it partylessly. She cancel her membership for NSC. That also means that she is no longer eligible. Palmen was in place 8 of the NSC electoral list.
NSC party leader Eddy van Hijum calls it “good” that Palmen can continue her work. “The importance of the allowance parents is paramount,” he says. It was already announced yesterday that, despite the departure of NSC from the Chamber, Palmen will continue as State Secretary in the interest of the recovery operation of the allowance scandal.
SGP presents a concept program with ‘Classic SGP story’ The draft election program that SGP presented this morning, has a classic SGP story according to the party itself. The importance of the family is central to this. The party is also still fierce against abortion and wants to ban transgender care, prostitution, porn and gambling.
SGP also wants a family home for vulnerable mothers and their children in every province. A swimming lesson bonus of 1,000 euros must be made available for each four -year -old child.
In its election program, the party pays more attention to boundaries of demonstration law than in the previous parliamentary elections. They are not allowed to jeopardize public order and safety, according to the SGP. The party recently rejected the occupation of university sites by Gazademonstrants.
The members will vote on the election program on 20 September.
Yesilgöz does not want to see VVD leader Dilan Yesilgöz in a coalition with GroenLinks-PvdA Dilan Yesilgöz “that the VVD forms a coalition with GroenLinks-PvdA after the elections. Last night at the table at RTL Tonight , Yesilgöz said she hopes for a center -right cabinet without the PVV. Even with the party of Frans Timmermans, she does not want to form a cabinet. “I really don’t see that working.”
The party leader was asked several times in the Laitightshow whether she definitively excludes GroenLinks-PvdA. “I am quite sharp here indeed, that is quite clear. I don’t want that, because I think this country is craving for the center -right policy,” she emphasized.
Van Vroonhoven not on NSC list Nicolien van Vroonhoven is not available for the upcoming elections. The members of NSC have put her lower on the electoral list. Van Vroonhoven was first in place two, but was voted for four place by the members. Van Vroonhoven sees that, according to NSC, as a “clear signal from the members and has decided not to stand for election”.
Van Vroonhoven replaced Pieter Omtzigt as party chairman of NSC. It was already clear for the upcoming elections that Eddy van Hijum would be the leader on behalf of the party. Van Vroonhoven had been openly doubted for some time whether she wanted to continue as a member of parliament.
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Many former PvdD members on candidate list of the Vrede Vrede Vrede Vehier Vehier voor Dieren, the party that arose earlier this year from dissatisfaction with the Defense position of the Party for the Animals, has many former members of that party. Of the first ten names just announced on the list of candidates, half was a member of PvdD earlier.
For example, party leader Pascale Plusquin was still in ninth place on the PvdD candidate list in the previous elections. In third place is Ruud van der Velden, who was previously party chairman of the PvdD and was on behalf of that party in the Rotterdam city council. Ewald Engelen is in fifth place. The professor and husband of Marianne Thieme, co -founder of the Party for the Animals, was the list pusher of that party several times.
Hussel In the BBB candidate list, Claudia van Zanten, the members of the BBB, have somewhat adjusted the list of candidates for the elections. Member of Parliament Claudia van Zanten has risen from place seven on the list to five place.
New Board DENK will receive ample support members The new board of the DENK party, led by former party leader Tunahan Kuzu, received ample support on Saturday at the general members’ meeting of the party.
The members could vote per board member. From 215 voting members, chairman Kuzu received support with 191 votes, Marinah Butt with 182 votes and Muhaimin al-Robayi with 185.
According to a press release from the party, the members have “honorable farewell” from the departing board members. “The party expresses its great appreciation for the retiring board and thanks them for the commitment and dedication with which they have served DENK in recent years.”
Baudet is no longer the leader and party leader FVD Thierry Baudet is no longer the party leader and party chairman of the Forum for Democracy. He makes way for Lidewij de Vos. So far, Baudet has always been the party leader of the party in parliamentary elections.
Founder Baudet remains party chairman and goes to the second place on the electoral list, because he thinks he as a leader is standing in the way of growth of the party. According to him, this is due to, among other things, “polarized opinions” about Baudet and a “blockade for five years in the media”. “That has partly been my own fault, but also partly caused by framing and getting nothing.”
Baudet thinks FVD with De Vos as party leader and party leader “will achieve a fantastic result in the elections and can get a lot of things” for the VVD voters. The 28-year-old De Vos is the youngest party leader of one of the parties that are now in the Lower House.
50PLUS has five women in the first eight candidates 50Plus, the elections for the House of Representatives with five women with the first eight candidates on the list. Places two and three are for Corrie van Brenk and Martine Baay, who were both in the Lower House for 50PLUS before. Wilma Berkhout (former tax inspector), Anne Marie Fischer-Oots (member of the Provincial States in Limburg) and Anneke van der Helm-Chandansingh (member of the Provincial States in Noord-Holland) are located in places six, seven and eight.
Bosma, Faber and other PVV prominent people on the list of candidates on the list of candidates of the PVV are various party prominents whose still unclear whether they would return to the Lower House. Among them include Lower House chairman Martin Bosma (6), former asylum minister Marjolein Faber (9) and former State Secretaries Vicky Maeijer (10) and Chris Jansen (26).
The PVV is on average at 29 to 35 seats in the polls. Based on that, five sitting PVV MPs would not return after the elections.
Earlier, PVV leader Geert Wilders already announced the top four of the list. Apart from him, they are all newcomers in politics in The Hague.
Former minister Fleur Agema does not again stand for election for PVV Fleur Agema, after seventeen years as a Member of Parliament, did not make himself available again for the party. The former care minister announced this on Thursday evening via X.
Wilders puts newcomers at the top of the PVV leader Geert Wilders in the top four in the top four, no sitting Member of Parliament. MEP Sebastiaan Stöteler is in second place on the list of candidates. This is followed by Shanna Schilder from Volendam and Annelotte Lammers from Genemuiden. Little is known about them.
Fleur Agema was in second place in the previous elections. In 2006 she was one of the first PVV members to be elected in the Lower House. Agema became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health in the Cabinet. Rachel van Montelen was in third place. She had no political experience, but exploited poffertjes stalls at fairs. Gidi Markuszower, a confidant of Wilders, was in fourth place.
Wilders announces the full list of candidates somewhere “in the coming days”.
On 29 October, voters can vote in the Westerbork Memorial Center The Memorial Center Camp Westerbork serves as a polling station in the Lower House elections. “It is possible that voting is possible at this place, where freedom and human rights were under pressure in the past, makes a big impression,” says the mayor of Midden-Drenthe, Jan Zwiers. A text by Anne Frank will be placed on the voting pencil.
Between 1942 and 1945, more than 100,000 Dutch Jews, 245 Sinti and Roma and a few dozen resistance fighters were deported from the camp to extermination camps. Only about 5,000 of them survived the Holocaust.
Former journalist Tijs van den Brink is given eleventh place on the list of the CDA Van den Brink announced earlier this month to stop at the EO to apply for a place on the CDA candidate list. He is in eleventh place, according to the concept candidate list that the party presented on Tuesday. According to the current polls, that is an eligible position.
At the top of the list, the CDA mainly puts candidates with a lot of political experience. After party leader Henri Bontenbal, Hanneke Steen follows, now alderman on behalf of the Christian Democrats in Hengelo. The current CDA MPs Derk Boswijk (3), Inge van Dijk (4) and Harmen Krul (5) are also given a high place.
Volt mainly focuses on climate and wants more MPs Volt puts climate at the top in the new election program. European unification therefore has a less prominent place. The party wants to invest in technological developments and sustainable industry and have the polluting companies pay for this. In addition, a network of high -speed trains must connect European cities.
The party also wants the House of Representatives to grow from 150 to 250 members. “A larger House of Representatives is needed to strengthen the legislative and controlling task and especially to better fulfill the task of parliament.” According to party leader Laurens Dassen, the ideas were proposed by party members throughout Europe. “We have given political pioneers a megaphone and said: if there is no majority for it, then we will convince that majority.”
GL-PVDA puts alderman Marjolein Moorman High on concept list The Amsterdam alderman Marjolein Moorman (the second person from the right in the photo) has been put in sixth place on the draft list of GL-PvdA. She is therefore the highest newcomer.
The top five of the just -published list of candidates is the same as in the previous elections. Frans Timmermans leads the list, followed by Esmah Lahlah, Jesse Klaver, Kati Piri and Lisa Westerveld.
The members can vote on the final list for a week from Thursday.
Final list VVD: Bente Becker from place three to six The VVD set the final list of candidates for the elections last night. Member of Parliament Bente Becker, who was put in third place by the party, dropped to place six. Outgoing defense minister Ruben Brekelmans shifts a place (from four to three), followed by outgoing Minister of Economic Affairs Vincent Karremans (was on five, now on four) and MP Eric van der Burg (from six to five).
The first two places on the list have remained the same: party leader Dilan Yesilgöz continues to lead the list, followed by outgoing minister Eelco Heinen (Finance).
CDA mainly focuses on norms and values and wants to abolish mortgage interest deduction The CDA trusts the new election program on the classical Christian Democratic themes: responsibility, connecting and the family central. According to the party, those topics are now more important than ever after the “political experiments” of the previous cabinet.
PVV program: Islam greatest threat of freedom, no ban on mosques Last weekend, the PVV also published the election program. Wilders’ plans are primarily a further elaboration of the previously published ten -point plan, on which he dropped the cabinet.
UWV top woman lower on the list of candidates D66, file letter on the UWV top woman Nathalie van Berkel has to do it after a members of a sixth place on the D66 candidate list. The party board had put her in second place. That second place now goes to MP Jan Paternotte.
The mood of the D66 members has caused more shifts. Former State Secretary and current MP Hans Vijlbrief is rising from five to three, his colleague Joost goes faster from number ten to five. Fatimazhra Belhirch, now Member of Parliament and New at the top of the list, has fallen from place six to eight. MP Hanneke van der Werf rises from the thirteenth to ninth place.
NSC starts elections with many familiar faces, Van Vroonhoven In place 2 NSC goes into the elections with familiar faces at the top of the list of candidates, despite the departure of several prominent party members. In addition to party leader Eddy van Hijum, former party leader Nicolien van Vroonhoven (in second place) and outgoing interior Minister Judith Uitermark (third) are supposed to be the list.
ChristenUnie makes an important point of living. The ChristenUnie has today shared the concept party program. That starts with a chapter about living. For example, the party wants to invest 20 billion euros in building houses over the next ten years. They also want two thirds of the houses that will be built in the coming years is “affordable” and that half of it becomes social rent. 100,000 homes must be added every year in the coming years.
Just like in 2023, the ChristenUnie wants to change the tax system considerably. The party wants people not to have to pay tax on the first 30,000 euros they earn annually. In addition, the income tax disks must be reduced.
Planning JA21: TOP about refugee treaties and Minister for Public Efficiency also presented the election program. It can be read that the conservative-liberal party wants to organize a top in 2027 with the aim of being able to adjust the refugee treaties.
In addition, the party wants a minister for government efficiency and autonomy. He is not only given the task to reduce the government, but also to introduce the binding corrective referendum as quickly as possible.
Last week the party presented the list of candidates, which is led by Joost Eerdmans, co-founder Annabel Nanninga and the former PVV-State Secretary Ingrid Coenradie.
Van Baarle Back as the party leader of DENKHAN Van Baarle returns as a party leader of DENK, the political party reports. Van Baarle returned last week as a party leader because of a conflict with the board, which resigned this weekend. DENK says that Van Baarle has decided to return “after good consultation with his colleagues” as a party leader. In a statement, Van Baarle writes that he feels “strengthened” by the massive statements he received.
The party leader received support from his group boards, local DENK groups and party employees. They blamed the board to deposit the party “in a deep crisis” and called for Van Baarles return.
PvdD wants 5 percent from GDP to climate and nature The party for the (PvdD) today presented its election program and list of candidates. The latter yields no surprises: the current MPs are at the top of the list of candidates.
The program includes the plan to spend 5 percent of GDP on nature conservation and combating climate change. In addition, the party wants a “climate load” for the highest power and glass walls in slaughterhouses, stables and transport cars. “Everyone would be vegan,” said the party.
CU puts sitting MPs at the top of the list The ChristenUnie has put the three sitting MPs at the top of the draft candidate list. After party leader Mirjam Bikker follow MPs Pieter Grinwis and Don Ceder.
This includes Alwin in Rietstap, alderman in Hardenberg and Joëlle Gooijer-Medema, who holds the same position in Delft. The party opts for the same top 5 as in the 2023 elections. Former State Secretary Maarten van Ooijen is in 12th place.
Again fewer parties registered for elections The Electoral Council has just announced how many parties have registered to participate in the elections. This time there are 54. Before the previous elections in 2023, seventy parties had registered.
Among the new parties include Peace for Animals, the spin-off of the Party for the Animals, and the Fryske Nasjonale Party of former NSC’er, Jelle ZoSboer.
The next step takes place on the way to the elections on 15 September. Then the parties must hand in their electoral lists and associated documents to the Electoral Council. Only then is it final which parties participate in the elections.
GL-PVDA program: for the first time migration balance and fully focus on houses GroenLinks-PvdA homes with five hard promises to the voter. More homes and higher wages are most concrete. The party also mentions a migration balance for the first time. On average, it must be controlled at 40,000 to 60,000 migrants per year for a “moderate population growth”.
Presenter Tijs van den Brink wants to become a MP for CDA EO presenter Tijs van den Brink applied to the CDA for a place on the list of candidates. After 25 years, Van den Brink puts an end to his career as a presenter, EO has just announced. Should Van den Brink do not end up in parliament after the elections for the House of Representatives at the end of October, the presenter and the EO will discuss “the situation”.
Party board DENK immediately lays down the party board of DENK immediately lays down its position “to lay the foundation for the right circumstances in which the coming elections will be prepared”. There