Jan Cees Vogelaar and Jaap Haanstra will not become duo-chairmen of LTO Nederland. The two report on their website that LTO prefers another candidate. Haanstra and Vogelaar regret that they have not been elected, but declare that they respect the decision of the LTO directors.
LTO Nederland reports that it has found a candidate for president on Tuesday evening. On November 10, the members' council of the organization can vote on this candidate and until then LTO will keep his name secret. Vogelaar and Haanstra announced their candidacy for the chairmanship of the agricultural and horticultural organization in mid-July.
In an exclusive interview for Boerenbusiness they told LTO wanting to fundamentally change. They also wanted to put an end to the divisions within agriculture and to arrive at one voice on behalf of the organized farmers and horticulturists. So it won't get that far. The two say in a statement that they are sorry, pointing to various polls that showed support of 70 to 80% of farmers and horticulturists for their candidacy.
Wishing you just as much support
Haanstra and Vogelaar wish the new chairman of LTO Nederland every success, with the subtle addition "to wish just as much support and supporters as they were expected to have." They state that they have had 2 job interviews in the past few months, which in their view went "pleasant."
The first was with employees of the headhunting agency engaged by LTO. The second meeting was with the regional chairmen of LTO Noord, ZLTO and LLTB. These are Dirk Bruins, Wim Bens and Léon Faassen respectively. The director of LTO Nederland, Hans van den Heuvel, was also present.
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This is in response to it Boerenbusiness article:
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I call advocacy something different from poldering and giving away all interests! Furthermore, I certainly do not expect a representative to allow himself to become financially dependent on other parties at the negotiating table, because then negotiations are quickly over, as has also been shown. There are other parties such as FDF and Agractie that have clearly taken a stand against misguided emotional government policies! Surely you can hardly expect me to want to remain a member of an organization that can never or does not want to put a fist on the table and therefore continues to give away interests under the guise of what is socially feasible!
Labeling a number of action companies supported by less than 10% of the electorate as society! That shows what, in my eyes, is completely rotten and wrong from the inside, politically interwoven civil service in the service of the so-called members! Calon was a good exponent of what came out of this. It got it ready to publicly pillage its own members as criminals while the majority of the members involved were totally innocent! How rotten is that organization? As a sensible farmer I am deeply ashamed of that and for that reason I cannot be a member! So you obviously see these abuses differently and even support them?!