CDA gets key thrown in nitrogen

Farmers Defense Force (FDF) has set its sights on the CDA in the nitrogen discussion. The peasant movement reports that it is very disappointed with the current stance of the party, which "traditionally had a warm heart for the peasantry." FDF calls on the CDA to leave the coalition and drop the cabinet.

"The farmers of the Netherlands feel horribly abandoned by 'their' party," writes chairman Mark van den Oever in a letter to the CDA faction in the House of Representatives. He points, among other things, to the Provincial Executive of the province of Noord-Brabant, where the CDA left the relatively left-wing council due to the nitrogen crisis.

Meanwhile, in Brabant, to the suspicions of D66 and GroenLinks, a right-wing coalition including Forum for Democracy is beckoning. "We have to return to a farmer-friendly policy. The national CDA must finally show some color, just like it happened in Den Bosch. The plug must be removed from this Cabinet," said Van den Oever.

Wrong assumptions
FDF does not understand why the CDA has voted to continue the nitrogen debate on Thursday, February 20. Then the Mesdag Dairy Fund will also present its calculations of the nitrogen data from RIVM. "You want to debate nitrogen policy. Why? Is the truth no longer important to the CDA?", Van den Oever wonders. Then to write: "Do not become a co-perpetrator in doing injustice to your farmers or dismantling the Dutch countryside on the basis of wrong assumptions."

Van den Oever argues that the CDA should support the agricultural collective's nitrogen plans. "That does not cost farms and provides a future for the whole of the Netherlands in a socially and economically responsible way."

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