Frans Timmermans strongly doubts whether he wants to participate in the second edition of the Debate of the Netherlands, the election debate with Wilfred Genee that went so tumultuously in 2023. “Does he stay away?”
It was a controversial debate two years ago: the first edition of the debate of the Netherlands today Inside star Wilfred Genee. It was a boisterous debate that had a lot of influence on the course of the final elections. Nevertheless, PvdA-Groenlinks leader Frans Timmermans threatens to stay away from the second edition.
Comes French?
Thomas van Groningen asks Wilfred at the table Today Inside. “Has Timmermans actually promised that he will come to you in the debate of the Netherlands?”
Wilfred then: “No, he doubts. I don’t understand why actually. He hadn’t liked it the last time, I understand.”
Thomas: “It would be crazy if he didn’t come, right?”
Critically approach
Wilfred would find that a shame. “You can approach him critically or is that not allowed?”
Thomas: “He was angry with that debate at the time, because he thought you had favored a little Wilders in that debate, right?”
Wilfred: “No, he was especially angry about the fact that he had sat here at the table and I then quickly started about the mail he had once sent to Job Cohen, but this week I also saw that again at Wouter de Winther that he had put him a knife in his back.”
Very welcome
Frans introduced the end of Job Cohens political career with a confidential e-mail that he sent to more than thirty colleagues and then leaked. Table guest Wierd Duk: “Yes, that is also publicly known that he did that.”
Wilfred: “Yes, but I think he assumed that it would be about Roda JC and AS Roma. But he is welcome. He is very welcome.”