'Make Aalt Dijkhuizen Minister of Agriculture'

Aalt Dijkhuizen is the ideal Minister of Agriculture in the next cabinet. That is the view of Caroline van de Plas, the leader of BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB), in the House of Representatives. In addition, the prominent CDA MP Pieter Omzigt is very welcome at BBB if he wants to leave his party.

This is what Van der Plas said yesterday for the microphone of BNR. According to the BBB figurehead, Dijkhuizen is very suitable as the new Minister of Agriculture. The former chairman of the board of Wageningen UR "has been involved in agriculture for a long time, is very pragmatic and practical, has a huge amount of knowledge and a large network", says Van der Plas.

According to her, "more professionals should come into the cabinet instead of people with administrative experience." The chance that Dijkhuizen, also former chairman of the Agricultural Collective, will be asked to be a minister is small, because certainly D66 and parties on the left side of the political spectrum do not share all his ideas.

Aalt Dijkhuizen has also been chairman of the jury of the Agribusiness Award from Boerenbusiness.

Free space for Omtzigt
If Pieter Omtzigt decides to leave the CDA, a rumor that still hangs above the market in politics, then according to Van der Plas he is most welcome at BBB. "I told him: you have shelter at BBB. And yes, who wouldn't want such a champ from a Member of Parliament?" Omtzigt himself has never commented on his political future. He is at home exhausted.

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