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BoerBurgerBeweging the third party in the Netherlands
If elections are now held for the House of Representatives, BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB) will be the third party in the Netherlands. This is apparent from the weekly poll by Maurice de Hond. The party of leader Caroline van der Plas has 13 seats in the poll, 12 more than now. The coalition parties VVD, D66, CDA and ChristenUnie jointly lose 29 seats in this vote.
The poll was conducted after the announcement of the nitrogen plans of the cabinet for Dutch agriculture and horticulture. This policy announced by VVD minister Christianne van der Wal (Nature and Nitrogen) has not made VVD and D66, the strongest advocate for manure in livestock, more popular. VVD loses 11 seats in the poll to reach 23 seats. D66 halves with only 12 seats in the polls, a loss of 12 seats. Remarkably enough, with 13 seats, BBB is above D66 in the poll.
The sample was taken for the VVD congress, in which a majority of members voted against the cabinet's nitrogen plans, and the vote on the merger of PvdA and GroenLinks in the Senate. Another big 'winner' is the JA21, the party of leader Joost Eerdmans. JA21 wins 7 seats and ends up at 11 seats. There is one big 'but' in the poll, emphasizes Maurice de Hond. Pieter Omzigt, who now forms a one-man faction in the House of Representatives, was not included in the poll. Omtzigt has not yet announced whether he will participate in the next parliamentary elections at all. In an earlier poll in which Omtzigt was given as an option with a party, he had a potential of 24 seats. They were also nice stole some seats from BBB.
Eric the Thrush
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