Former Minister of Asylum and Migration Marjolein Faber again aspires to a mandate as a representative of the people. She is in ninth place of the list of candidates of the PVV for the upcoming parliamentary elections. Friday evening party leader Geert Wilders set the list, Those eighty names counts, On social media.
From 2023, Faber was in the Lower House for the radical-right party, before that she represented the PVV in the Senate and in the Provincial States of Gelderland. Faber was one of the most controversial ministers in the Schoof cabinet. For example, she conceived the plan to place signs at asylum seekers ‘centers that state that’ return ‘is being worked on after she had seen this at asylum seekers’ centers in Denmark. However, such signs do not exist in Denmark, Faber’s officials reported in an advisory memorandum NRC could see.
At the end of March, Faber again caused a riot, when she refused to distinguish volunteers from the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) with a ribbon. At Prime Minister Dick Schoof, Faber gradually aroused more irritation, concluded NRC. She undermined his authority. Faber left The Hague with the fall of the cabinet. On X she shared the announcement of her party leader on Friday evening.
Other candidates
The PVV has no party other than Geert Wilders, so there is no members’ consultation on the list of candidates. On Thursday, Wilders already announced that current MEP Sebastian Stöteler is in two. This is followed by two people who do not have any political experience, Shanna Schilder and Annelotte Lammers as far as is known.
Gidi Markuszower, who did not come through the AIVD screening to become a minister, is in fiveth place. This is followed by room chairman Martin Bosma. Former State Secretary for Long -term and Social Care Vicky Maeijer is in tenth place of the list of candidates. Veteran Dion Graus is eighteen. Former Minister of Infrastructure Barry Madlener is a list pusher. The number three in the previous elections, Rachel van Mertelen, who in particular became known as the operator of a poffertjes stall, returns in place 25.
Léon de Jong
Another striking absentee on the PVV list is veteran Léon de Jong. De Jong was already a PVV MP from 2010 to 2012 and was again since 2017. In 2014 he was a municipal party leader for the PVV in The Hague. He was thirteen in the previous parliamentary elections. De Jong has a relationship with Fleur Agema, who also announced on Thursday that she is no longer on the list.
In an extensive response to X De Jong says he decided to no longer stand for election in June. Except that it is “time to shape my social involvement in a different way,” he does not give a motivation for that decision. De Jong does not yet write what he will do in the Lower House after the end of his term.
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