Jan Slagter is starting to become very bothered by Rob Jetten’s many media appearances. The MAX boss understands that the election campaigns are in full swing, but: “It is burned into my TV!”
Jan Slagter is really starting to get fed up with the fact that we currently see the party leaders appearing in almost every TV program. Our country is almost going to the polls, so politicians are using every opportunity to generate some attention. “I think it’s a bit too much, yes,” he says at the desk of the TV flop RTL Tonight.
Jetten burned
We are being ‘flooded’, Jan believes. “You only have to turn on the television or there is a politician on television. Every program is also used to talk about politics. I am a fan of politics, but I have prepared something: Jetten is burned into the television screen at our home, proverbially.”
Jan then shows an overview of Rob’s TV appearances. We saw him on Sunday evening at the RTL Election Debate, Monday at BOOS and Today Inside, Tuesday at Goedemorgen Nederland and RTL Tonight, Wednesday at BNR and Eva and then on Thursday? Then The Debate of the Netherlands was shown on SBS 6, in which he was not allowed to participate.
‘It’s too much!’
Rob had also arranged something for himself, according to Jan. “He thought: what am I going to do on Thursday, because I am not allowed to go to the SBS debate? He then went live on Instagram and in the evening at Pauw & De Wit.”
The MAX boss: “He’s doing fantastic. I mean: I have nothing against Jetten, he’s energetic, but you know: how many Jetten can a person tolerate, you know. I’m a bit against that. It’s too much. The messages they tell are also the same every time.”
Politician-free channel
According to Jan, it is high time that the NPO committed itself to a channel without politicians. “I already argued in 2002 and 2003: let’s create one network where people who have no interest in politics can watch a nice film or detective.”
In the latest poll by Maurice de Hond, D66 is the fifth party in the Netherlands with 17 seats, right after PVV (29 seats), GroenLinks-PvdA (24 seats), CDA (22 seats) and VVD (20 seats).