Van Vroonhoven, who had become party leader after founder Pieter Omtzigt had left The Hague politics because of a persistent burnout, writes in a statement that she “would have liked to pull the cart”, but that she cannot now “give up for the full 100 percent” for the campaign. “My goal was to bring NSC back to the base, to the substantive core for which NSC was founded. I might even have seen a somewhat lower seat number as a relief.”
Nicolien van Vroonhoven (54) from inconspicuous MP to nervous right hand Pieter Omtzigt: Can she protect NSC from oblivion?
She thinks it is an “anything but simple” concludes. “But I suspect that for some of you it will not come completely unexpected,” she writes. In recent years, for her “immensely special, but also quite heavy,” have been.
She concludes her statement with the comment that “the current way of making politics” her “did not sit in the cold clothes.” She hopes “that people would give each other a bit more at this time.” Earlier she was also candid about her difficulty with the Hague manners. She called the Hague political culture in an interview with Tijs van den Brink “incredibly toxic.”
Have candidates up to and including Saturday night to apply for the party leader. Van Hijum announced on Saturday evening to be interested. He is considered a confidant of Omtzigt. He was previously a member of parliament and deputy for the CDA.
‘Upcoming elections a major challenge’
According to Van Hijum, the upcoming elections will be “a big challenge,” he writes in his letter to the party board. Van Hijum found rule with the PVV, VVD and BBB “a roller coaster that we didn’t get out of without scratches. We will have to work hard to bring back the confidence in our party.”
The Deputy Prime Minister of NSC wants to work for ‘a culture of cooperation and connection’. He finds politicians who “raise polarization to an art” “worrying.” “Politics should loosen and strengthen the good in people; not the lower abdomen.”
Member of Parliament Diederik Boomsma also makes a shot at the NSC party leader. He was previously chairman of the CDA in the Amsterdam city council. Boomsma wants to sail a “socio-conservative course” with NSC, he reported earlier on X.
He is going to do it: file freeter Diederik Boomsma does Gooi to list leader NSC
It is not yet known whether other candidates have reported. NSC opened the vacancy for the party leadership earlier this week. The party is looking for a “charismatic and inspiring leader” that is “communicative strong”. On Tuesday, the NSC party board will announce who nominates it as a party leader. After that, counter candidates have another week to report.
NSC is not doing well in the polls. In the previous parliamentary elections, the Omtzigt party still got twenty seats. Now NSC is on average surveyed at zero to two seats.