Annabel Nanninga has traveled to Hilversum to win over Johan Derksen. She seems to have succeeded, because the football analyst is suddenly full of praise for her. “That’s really just a cool woman.”
It’s no secret that the ‘mentally independent’ Johan Derksen is very easily influenced. For example, last year he shouted that Johnny de Mol had to leave the screen immediately because of Shima Kaes’ declaration, but after a conversation with papa John he suddenly sounded very different. Then the angry finger suddenly pointed at ‘Johnny basher’ Angela de Jong.
On the coffee
JA21 politician Annabel Nanninga is well aware of this. When she heard Johan say two weeks ago that he strongly doubts a vote for JA21 because of ‘a number of very anti-Semitic statements by Mrs Nanninga’, she immediately jumped into the pen. With success: yesterday the two were having coffee together in Hilversum.
After all, the 74-year-old Johan, who previously worked for Forum for Democracy, is one of the biggest influencers of the conservative community. “I had an appointment here with Annabel Nanninga at seven o’clock,” he confesses in the Today Inside of yesterday evening.
Smelling Annabel
Wilfred Genee cynically: “Who wants to bring you into the party again?”
Johan: “No, no, no. That was just an introduction. We smelled each other for a while.”
Colleague René van der Gijp: “Not licked?”
Johan: “No, because if you want to lick Annabel, it will take you two days! No, but that’s a really nice woman. That is really just a cool woman.”
“Unbelievable this!”
In two weeks from ‘woman with very anti-Semitic statements’ to a ‘great woman’: it can change. Wilfred: “Why was she here then? What are your plans for the future then?”
John: “No, no. She actually wanted to thank me for speaking positively about her party JA21 a few times. She said, ‘We really appreciate the aura of your program.’”
Wilfred and René then screech. “Unbelievable this! Keep going!” said Wilfred.
Johan: “She says: ‘If something is said, we get so many reactions in the country.’ I say: ‘Yes, I know my power.’”
Spokesman
Wilfred: “You also say ‘yes’ a lot at once, I notice.”
Johan: “Yes, I said: ‘Yes, 21!’”
Wilfred: “Did she come especially to do that?”
Hélène Hendriks: “But you won’t be the spokesperson or something?”
Johan: “No, no, but I don’t want to deal with a political party anyway.”
He particularly agrees with the JA21 positions on refugees. “It really can’t go on like this. That’s the only thing I admit to JA21. That is the only party that actually wants to do something about it.”
