Ingrid Coenradie makes the switch from the PVV to JA21. She announced this in a Friday interview with it Ad. Coenradie stood out as a PVV State Secretary and Security, because of her open criticism of party leader Geert Wilders. After the fall of the cabinet, she left the PVV, which led to speculation about the next step in her political career. The Rotterdammer ends up behind Joost Eerdmans on the Ja21 election list.
The cabinet trap fell raw on her roof, Coenradie tells it Ad. “I was really in mourning. You’re in a train, think good things to do and someone suddenly pulls the emergency brake. That’s how it felt.”
Coenradie and Wilders disagreed about a plan from the State Secretary to release prisoners two weeks earlier as an emergency solution against the large and ever -growing cell shortage. Wilders took a public distance from that proposal by reporting on X that the PVV would “never agree”. Thanks to the opposition, Coenradie managed to get her proposal through the House of Representatives with a minimal majority. A few weeks later at the Spring Memorandum would show that the government would not take any extra money for the prison system, while Coenradie had indicated that he needed half a billion to construct new prisons.
Just like Eerdmans, Coenradie has a past at Leefbaar Rotterdam, both were also party chairman. As a teenager, she walked into the silent journey after the murder of Pim Fortuyn in 2002. The “right-minded” course of JA21 is better than that of the PVV, she says to it Ad. “The ideas of JA21 are in line with my own beliefs – not only in terms of content, but also in terms of style. Saying what it says, but always with respect for others.”
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