In this episode you hear Els Kuijper† In 2002 she was alderman and party leader of the PvdA, the party that governed the city for decades. What Ad Melkert was in national politics, Els Kuijper was in Rotterdam: the rival and scapegoat of Fortuyn and Liveable Rotterdam. How does she look back on the historic defeat of the PvdA in the municipal election in March 2002? And does she understand the dissatisfaction among many Rotterdammers twenty years later?
Listen below to the previous episodes of the podcast Fortuyn. Through the eyes of Rotterdam.