Political parties are looking hard for volunteers, new members, budget and ideas for the election campaign for a new House of Representatives. Various parties have set up committees to select candidate MPs and write the election program or are in the process of doing so. This is evident from a tour of the ANP.
Many party coffers are considerably emptier or even almost empty after the election campaign for the Provincial Council in March this year. The next elections for the European Parliament would be in 2024, but due to the fall of the cabinet, early parliamentary elections will first be held on 22 November. The House is in recess, but the parties cannot afford to wait until September.
BBB frontwoman Caroline van der Plas asks in a video on Twitter to support the party’s campaign with a donation. “I don’t like begging at all, but I’m going to do it,” she says. The BBB won the States elections with flying colors and entered the Senate from scratch with sixteen seats. The party is now the largest fraction there. The BBB currently has one seat in the House of Representatives, but has gained significant gains in various polls.
Recruit on Twitter
GroenLinks and Volt are also asking for a donation for their election campaigns. “We are on the eve of a campaign that is unprecedented. And we can use everything and everyone for that”, the GroenLinks campaign manager emails.
PvdA is calling on candidate MPs via Twitter to apply for a place on the joint list with GroenLinks. Volt and JA21 also recruit candidate MPs on Twitter. People who are convinced that JA21 “can make the Netherlands freer, safer and more prosperous” and who fully support the party program and ideas of JA21 can apply until August 4.
Importance of the Netherlands
Candidate MPs for the CDA can apply until July 30, those for D66 until August 9. The VVD calls on everyone to come up with ideas to “make the Netherlands even freer, safer and more prosperous”. Those ideas are used when writing the election manifesto. Candidate MPs can report to the liberals until August 30. Members of the Party for the Animals can apply until August 7.
Group Van Haga, an offshoot of the VVD, will participate in the elections under the name Belang van Nederland (BVNL). Party chairman Wybren van Haga now has three seats in the House, but hopes for at least five seats.