Party leader of GroenLinks-Pvda Frans Timmermans is for the establishment of a new, left-wing party. Timmermans joined Tuesday for the cameras of News hour Behind the plea that MP Habtamu de Hoop kept hope last week. Timmermans thinks that many party members will share their position.
De Hoop spoke last week in an interview with NRC Undominated for the creation of a new left -wing alliance. According to De Hoop, GroenLinks and PvdA must stop time -consuming merger process to melt both parties. “For me it really has to be a new movement, not a merger of old organs,” said the MP. “I also think that with a new party we can easily involve other organizations in the movement, such as the trade unions.”
The now 26-year-old De Hoop was chosen as the youngest Member of Parliament on behalf of the PvdA in 2021. He plays an important sound within the younger generation of the party, while Timmermans (63) does that for the older narrow part of the supporters. According to the party leader, it is “good that hope has stepped forward with this.” “The fragmentation works in our disadvantage,” says Timmermans. “If you really want to make a fist against the right, the left must unite as much as possible.”
De Hoop also expressed himself in the interview against critics who long for “the old PvdA from before the 2002 Fortuynea voltage”. “The party is too often fixed on that, retrieving the world for 2002. If it gets just as difficult, it is always about that. I’m done with that, it bothers me. ” He also finds support on Tuesday support at Timmermans: “Let it dream about nostalgia at the right.”
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“No merger between GroenLinks and PvdA, but a totally new party on the left,” argues MP De Hoop