Pieter Omtzigt is no longer supported by Today Inside, the most important talk show in our country. In fact, it was sawed off at the ankles last night. “He’s a coward.”
According to critics, it is incredible and astonishing how Pieter Omtzigt has made the formation collapse: according to it A.D he walked away during the last conversations with the leaders of the PVV, VVD and BBB, saying that he was a bit tired. He then met up with some journalists in some hotel to tell them that he was withdrawing.
Coward
His fellow party leaders had to hear from the media that Omtzigt was running away. He only sent a text message, then he sat at Humberto Tan’s talk show table. What idiocy, says René van der Gijp. “He’s a strange guy. Also unguided, you know. You don’t know what to do with him,” he says Today Inside.
René is done with it: “It’s a bit cowardly too. You walk out of a room where you are talking to Wilders and so on and they say: ‘Hey, is something wrong? Do you want to get rid of it? Do you want to stop?’ “No, I’m tired.” Then he goes to a hotel, invites three journalists and to top it all off, he sits with Humberto.”
Styleless
Omtzigt has been a big blow to René. “I think it’s so bad what that man did. Stylish, man. Aren’t those who can be the first to expect to hear what’s going on, those three he mediated with and Plasterk? And not Humberto Tan? He could have gone there tonight or tomorrow.”
Colleague Johan Derksen regrets his vote for Omtzigt. “Yes, worthless. The man is overflowing with principles and when he gets tired and tense, those principles degenerate into doubts and emotion and then he loses his way. This makes him completely unsuitable as leader of the party, it has now become clear.”
Tricked
We cannot build on Omtzigt, Johan thinks. “If he jumps on tilt now… It has yet to start. I am one of the voters of Omtzigt who feels cheated. I’m the fuck every time. I choose VVD and I got Kaag, I voted for Forum once and I was called crazy…”
Table guest Olcay Gulsen also liked Omtzigt and is also disappointed. Like Hélène Hendriks, she thinks that he told a confusing story about Humberto. “He didn’t say anything there, did he? I thought: why are you here? You don’t say anything and you repeat everything. I found it so incoherent.”