Municipal councilor Annemiek de Groot leaves Liveable Borger-Odoorn. After seven years of membership, she informed her party members and the board of her decision on Monday. She remains politically active and will finish her council term as an independent councilor.
“I made this decision with pain in my heart,” says De Groot. “Things have happened in the party that I can no longer support myself from my own moral compass. I also do not agree with the way in which the party now puts the candidate.”
Whether she will continue after the municipal elections in March, she does not yet know. “I have often placed politics above my family and company in recent years, but I certainly still have ambition. For which party that will be, I don’t know yet.” De Groot is also a member of the National Party NSC.
Board member Fred Moll calls the departure a pity. “It is a person’s right to choose for that and to take the seat with us. We are not about that as a party, but it is annoying. However, you have that right if you face such a choice.”
According to Moll, the core of the conflict lies with the internal rules of the party. “We have stipulated that after two periods you transfer the baton in the group. That was agreed at the founding and she was there. It is annoying if there are other expectations.”