GL in Amsterdam: not with JA21 in a class of B and W | Inland
That writes GL leader Rutger Groot Wassink on Twitter. He responds to a plea that D66 leader Sigrid Kaag and GL’er Jesse Klaver in the upcoming municipal elections change to exclude FvD and the PVV.
“You can still disagree with each other, we accept the rules of the rule of law and if you don’t, there is one straight slide to violence,” said Klaver. “That’s why I draw the line at parties such as Forum and the PVV.”
Groot Wassink of the GL metropolitan department takes it one step further. ‘Very well! Not really that GroenLinks020 once jointly governs the city with Forum and, by the way, also with JA21′, he writes on Twitter. Incidentally, last week it appeared from the Stemwijzer that Forum was ‘higher’ on the affinity list of the GL’er on the last JA21.
That the GL leader blows so high from the tower is striking because GL itself had remarkable Wijnand Duyvendak in its ranks. He was associated with the left-wing terrorist organization RaRa. The club is held responsible for attacks on the home of then Secretary of State Aad Kosto, Shell stations and Makro branches. Duyvendak himself denies.
‘To cry’
“Well, you understand that we at JA21 cry ourselves to sleep every night now,” laughs party chairman Annabel Nanninga. AOW, although the party has led a member affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood into the House of Representatives. You will not find people with such a controversial background with us, but that does not mean that we will exclude GL”, it sounds sober.
Annabel Naninga (JA21): “The Amsterdammer determines who is there after the elections.”
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“It is not Mr Groot Wassink, but the Amsterdammer who decides who it is after the elections and what numerically logical combinations are,” says Nanninga.
‘Intimidate’
D66 in Amsterdam only bans FvD because of ‘racism’. “And that has only gotten worse. We do not see a coalition with JA21 happening,” party leader Reinier van Dantzig said.
The VVD, which in principle wants to cooperate with all parties, makes ‘an exception’ only for FvD. “They intimidate politicians and threaten tribunals. I see no reason to talk to them about a collaboration,” says party leader Claire Martens.
In a response, FvD leader Anton van Schijndel invests: “Excluding democratic parties is unwise and reprehensible. In Amsterdam Forum is not part of the rotten power, but the challenger. A sound oppositional sound D is then sitting with a muzzle in a awake lecture, under the yoke of 66 and GL.”