Eva Jinek had the GroenLinks dummy at the table last night who made her party furious with a real voice of resentment. “Your decisions are really inimitable to me.”
The South Holland Member of Parliament Debora Fernald did not vote for her own party GroenLinks in the Senate elections, but for Volt. The consequence? GroenLinks lost a seat in the Senate, Volt won one. To her surprise, she was immediately expelled from the faction. “I thought that it would have no impactI’m a bit confused about it.”
‘I did not know’
Eva Jinek had this political idiot sitting at the table last night. The talk show diva does not understand that Debora did not understand the impact of her voice. “Shouldn’t you have known that in your position?”
Debora: “I should have known that myself, but I find it strange that I should have known that myself. (…) I should have known, but I did. Not in the sense that it would have such personal consequences, how people have reacted to me. I didn’t know that, but I did know that that voice of mine is important. I knew that.”
Racist party
She will not return her seat to GroenLinks. “I’m too tough for that. I am a real Rotterdam. That seat is mine. 8,114 people have chosen me and then GroenLinks can support it, but they also did not choose a racist party that GroenLinks is now anyway.”
Table guest Özcan Akyol: “You can’t say that the whole of GroenLinks is racist just because you’ve had a few experiences?”
Deborah: “No, no. And that is why I wanted to spare them the pain of telling this story like this and I said yesterday that I regret the consequences this has had for the good people within GroenLinks.”
‘That’s really nonsense’
Eva can’t tie a rope to this Deborah. “There are other parties, there are other possibilities. If you are treated so badly by people, you really don’t need to stay. That is really nonsense.”
She continues: “Just a moment, because I’m trying to understand: you do regret that you voted for Volt, that makes Volt angry again, because you say: ‘Yes, I should not have voted for Volt’, but you says, “I don’t regret voting for Volt, I just regret that it has such an impact on me and my child.” Am I seeing that right?”
Debora: “Yes, that’s the regret, but I don’t regret voting for Volt, because I did it out of loyalty.”
Eva: “So it was a mistake when you said ‘I’m sorry I voted for Volt?'”
Debora: “Yes, that is basically not well explained or maybe I said it wrong.”
Inimitable
Patience at the table is running out. Özcan: “I still don’t really get it. Is that bad? Yesterday when I saw you on TV – you were on TV a lot – you did say that you really didn’t understand and if you did, that you wouldn’t have done it.”
Debora: “If I had understood the consequences, if I had understood everything together, I wouldn’t have done it. That’s what I say. I didn’t know it was an entire seat in the Senate. Then people can call me naive and stupid, but I was not told that.”
Eva: “I understand that discrimination exists and so does racism. At the same time, it is also possible that your decisions are now inimitable for me. I can hardly tell how this turned out. (…) I can’t even reproduce it. Those are not things that are connected.”
Deborah: “I understand.”
Cuckoo!