A ruling by King’s Commissioner Jetta Klijnsma causes a fuss among the BBB ranks. At the GroenLinks-PvdA party congress yesterday, she said that the BBB in Drenthe has no driver experience, which yields ‘misery’. That statement is wrong with BBB Drenthe.
At the congress, Klijnsma argued for a motion for a new directors’ association for the merged parties, such as the Center for Local Administration of the PvdA. This supports local, regional and provincial administrators. “I see in my province of Drenthe that if you have no driver’s experience at all, and my BBB people don’t have that, that really produces misery,” she said in her plea.
Willem Vossebeld, party leader of BBB Drenthe, calls Klijnsma’s statement ‘a remark by Jan Doedel’. “We are all angry. We will consult tomorrow night during the group meeting whether and how we will respond to this. We are new as BBB, but participate in all committees and have people with experience in the city council. And we are no longer new, we have been participating for two years so we have that management experience.”
Although that experience was limited in the beginning, according to Vossebeld, that did not cause major problems. “It wasn’t all misery, it went much better than we had expected ourselves. We were not too bad. We don’t lag behind anything. We have more knowledge than other parties on some files.”
Jetta Klijnsma announced through her spokesperson Martin Schutrups that her statements have been ‘awkward’. “She apologized and has offered to give text and explanation during the BBB group meeting.”
Whether she actually connects must still be apparent. “We will first discuss that tomorrow night,” says Vossebeld.