“Come repent,” Frans Timmermans told Dilan Yesilgöz, emphasizing every word

VVD leader Dilan Yesilgöz raises her chin a bit. She, she says to Frans Timmermans of GroenLinks-Pvda, “no regret” that she had entered “this right-wing cabinet”. “It was my only chance to get policy for which PvdA-Groenlinks could never be found.”

Yesilgöz stands behind the Katheder in the main hall of the House of Representatives, in the debate on Wednesday about the fall of the Schoof cabinet. Timmermans is at the interruption microphone, Yesilgöz hardly looks at him. By ‘policy’ she means the measures against asylum and migration, exactly why the PVV left the coalition with VVD, NSC and BBB the day earlier. Also with ‘this right -wing cabinet’ there was nothing of that policy, and Timmermans thinks she wrongly ‘accelerates’ it and ‘has achieved nothing for the Netherlands’.

“Nothing at all,” says Yesilgöz with a smile, “would have been better than the plans that Mr Timmermans has for the Netherlands.” The VVD members are rolling on their benches, they laugh hard.

Timmermans hardly looks at Yesilgöz. With emphasis on every word, he says, “Come .. Until .. Toon.” He wants to hear from her that she “never never goes with Wilders again”.

Everyone wants to know about her. In the previous elections, under its leadership, the VVD had left the possibility of rule with the PVV for the first time in ten years. That party then started to rise in the polls and won. But the VVD now also finds Geert Wilders a ‘runaway’. So you could say: Yesilgöz was mistaken in the previous election campaign.

Everyone wants to hear from Yesilgöz that she will never go into the sea with Wilders again ‘

It would be logical, is the idea of ​​many group chairmen, that she sees it and does not agree even. But Yesilgöz doesn’t want to say anything about that. About that decision from then she always repeats that she is about democracy, about taking the voter seriously. A little later in the debate she says she’s going to “think” about it. And: “It will be a serious decision.”

It is clear to the room: the VVD is looking for a different moment to come up with it and then bring it so that it could turn out well in the campaign. And not as an answer to a question from Timmermans.

Timmermans, says Yesilgöz, only wants to blame the other way. “Also the voter, as if he voted wrong.” She thinks that “an arrogance that simply cannot be described.”

‘Not a second regret’

CDA leader Henri Bontenbal believes that with that way of doing “the relationships” in the Lower House they “ruin”. After the elections, his prediction is, the VVD will also have to talk to Timmermans.

The entire debate is clear: the election campaign started this Wednesday. Wilders knows that he is blamed for the fall. In the big hall he says: “I know that a lot of people are angry. Everyone here reads the newspaper and watch TV. But I don’t regret it for a second.”

De Telegraaf Had a large photo of Wilders on the front page on the front page, against a black background and with the text ‘Failed, right -wing voter remains destitute behind’. For PVV, VVD and BBB, that is an important newspaper, with readers they like to have as voters.

The BBB campaign starts that afternoon outside the debate hall. News hour Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Housing Mona Keijzer (BBB) ​​asks if she would like to become the leader of her party. She doesn’t want to answer it. “I learned one thing in my life, you never have to say no. For the same money they ask me next week.”

In the same fragment, Caroline van der Plas, who founded the party, says that she has already informed the board that she wants to become a leader again. She is visibly surprised by the words of Keijzer. It is now about her in The Hague that she also wants to become Minister of Asylum and Migration, instead of PVV member Marjolein Faber, who, like all other PVV ministers, resigned. It would almost certainly become an important campaign theme again, asylum and migration. In politics in The Hague, ‘not excluding something’ almost always means the same as ‘yes’.

Chair legs

In the smoking corner, Van der Plas says that she has watched the video and does not hear that Keijzer really wants it and therefore saws her chair legs. She also says that the members are going on it. “And research shows that the support for me is still very large under our own supporters.”

BBB is now in the polls on about two seats. A party leader struggle often means a fight and hassle that voters don’t like.

The entire debate is clear: the election campaign has now started

In the debate about the fall of his cabinet, outgoing Prime Minister Dick Schoof, partyless, hardly gets any questions. He says that the troubled time, internationally, asks for “decisiveness.” With the ministers and state secretaries who have left, he plans to ‘bring the Netherlands’.

He will no longer have much time for that, the entire House of Representatives wants new elections as soon as possible. The Electoral Council will give advice on Wednesday at the end of the afternoon to keep it on Wednesday 29 October. The outgoing cabinet decides on that.

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