Floor Bremer responds for the first time to Geert Wilders’ sneer that she is ‘sour’. “Sour, sour, he thought it was sour. Well, I think I asked very understandable questions.”
PVV leader Geert Wilders walked away last week in annoyance after a question from RTL News journalist Floor Bremer about sending out tactical tweets during the formation process. He called her sour and ran away. And according to Hart van Nederland reporters Merel Ek and Sam Hagens, she simply asked a ‘very legitimate question’.
Floor acid?
Floor was on the talk show last night Renze and is confronted with the fragment in the program. Table guest Frank Lammers: “You don’t believe this, do you? That should continue as president of the Netherlands? Prime Minister…”
What exactly did Wilders say? Floor: “Sour. Sour and I don’t know anything else. Sour, sour, he thought it was sour.”
Host Renze Klamer: “What do you think of how he behaved there?”
Floor: “Well, I think I asked very understandable questions and he can respond how he wants to respond.”
Mild role
This is actually how we know Wilders, Floor explains. “It is interesting, because he now wants to be a mild version of himself and his past in Parliament has not shown that he is a very mild, reasonable version so far, because he often goes very hard. He is a very good politician, but he can also be very polarizing. Here he stepped out of character for a moment.”
Frank: “That’s not possible as Prime Minister, is it?”
Floor: “He’s not prime minister yet, is he?”
Frank: “That’s the intention, isn’t it, he thinks?”
Floor: “Well yeah…”
Turning point
Renze thinks that Wilders received advice after this excess. “This was also a bit of a turning point, because after this we didn’t see any more of this behavior. Just thumbs up, ‘things are going really well’ and constructive.”
Floor: “So he is working on his new tone. The question is also how he will react in Parliament. There he will also be attacked by other parties. From: why do you write such an election manifesto and half of it can go now? People will call him out on that. The question is how he will react and what the reactions will be there.”
Critical questions
Frank hopes that Floor will not stop criticizing the PVV leader after such a collision with Wilders. “Keep asking critical questions, right?”
Floor: “Well, yes. Yes, keep asking questions, I would say.”