It just doesn’t look right, is the conclusion of the VVD about the signs with election posters in the municipality of Vught. The party complains about defaced posters and limited space on the signs. GroenLinks-PvdA also sounded the alarm earlier. The VVD now wants to get rid of pasting posters in the municipality.
Wouter Schreuder, party leader for the VVD Vught, Helvoirt and Cromvoirt, says that it is really no longer possible. Recently, one of his party’s posters can no longer be seen on a sign in the municipality: another party has pasted a poster over it. According to the party leader, this is happening all the time.
“There is far too little room for 24 parties on the nineteen election boards in the municipality,” says Schreuder. “That is why other posters are continuously pasted over other posters on the boards. Every party experiences this and every party is guilty of this, because it cannot be otherwise with so little space.”
That is why Schreuder advocates a new solution: a tarpaulin or board that is made in advance and on which all parties are neatly placed in advance. “Other municipalities are already doing this. We want to discuss this with the municipality of Vught. This is also how you prevent vandalism.”
GroenLinks-PvdA posters previously defaced
The VVD says it has no experience with such vandalism in the municipality, but at the end of September the GroenLinks-PvdA election posters were defaced and torn off.
The chairman of GroenLinks-PvdA in Vught, Antoon van de Ven, is therefore certainly open to the alternative. “It’s a shame that it has to be done, because that’s what the destroyers want. But yes, it does solve a problem,” he says.
There were also reports of torn and defaced posters of political parties in Vught during previous elections. “So if we can agree on a solution together with all parties, and for example we opt for a tarpaulin with all parties neatly on it, we will have no problem with that,” he also says.
A spokesperson for the municipality of Vught said they recognized the problem. And the municipality will decide at a later date whether it will look for a new solution. “We will start working on this after the House of Representatives elections,” the spokesperson said.