The result is known, you already know it, I don’t, at the time of writing I am still floating. I have not yet made the 145 meters to the polling station in the church opposite my house, knowing that I will vote for the wrong person again.
According to Peter Kanne of Ipsos I&O, five parties are neck and neck, I don’t want to know, but I know anyway. Everything is reminiscent of the marmot race from the Who knows KwisFred Oster’s television program from a time when democracy was not yet as fragmented as it is today. He gave a story over a container of animals, the quiz candidate had to guess which one would be best able to walk to the box with the highest cash prize.
Every time I think I’ve figured it out, something happens again that makes me doubt again. The game changer: Jan Paternotte who desperately wants to become a minister and for the second time in a row attempted to be the first voter in the Netherlands in elections. At the end of the evening he drove to Castricum especially for this, by car I think because he lives in Leiderdorp and the public transport stops at midnight. Castricum resident Guus Bosland said: “Last year I was second, this year first.”
You saw Jan Paternotte disappointed: once again sitting in front of the polling station on Stationsweg with a thermos in a beach chair for nothing. An action by a B-politician who cannot cope with arguments at a talk show table and thinks that being playful can perhaps give the voters a final push. Yes, in the wrong direction, which crazy D66 campaigner came up with this? I fear him himself.
Jan Paternotte himself raised his hand at the meeting about crazy last-minute ideas, I would like to go to Castricum again, because that was also a television moment two years earlier. Crazy boy. Wear a beige coat, bring along an employee to talk all the voting Castricumers into line behind Paternotte and to give that haircut another brush before the camera crews finally arrive. A statue for Guus Bosland that he did not want to leave. Like most Dutch people, he first thought of himself, and not of Paternotte who supposedly posed for our future.
Marcel van Roosmalen writes a column on Mondays and Thursdays.
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