Hélène Hendriks, who as part of VI is one of the most important female opinion makers in the Netherlands, is disappointed in Dilan Yesilgöz. “My vote for the VVD is a lost vote.”
While Johan Derksen voted for Pieter Omtzigt in the elections, Hélène Hendriks and René van der Gijp went for the VVD. But now that the leader of that party, Dilan Yesilgöz, has said that the VVD will not sit in the next cabinet, they are very disappointed about this. “If I had known this, I would not have voted for it,” says René.
Hélène is disappointed
Hélène thinks the same. “Me too, exactly the same.”
René: “I didn’t vote. I think: you have a responsibility. What Johan says: you are a representative of the people, we have things to solve, then you have to get over your shadow and just cooperate again. You are simply obliged to do so.”
Johan Derksen: “People who voted for the VVD have no reason to do it again.”
René: “It is now becoming a kind of FC Dilan and that is of no use to me.”
Lost voice
Hélène finds it ridiculous that the VVD, as the third party in the Netherlands, refuses to co-govern. “It’s a lost vote. What I find strange about the whole story: if you lose a lot of voters, you have to make sure you get the voters back and in my opinion you don’t do that to sit back and watch an accident.”
That is what Dilan thinks will happen, says Hélène. After all, PVV, NSC and BBB have little administrative experience. Wilfred Genee: “The voter is done with all those games and what does the VVD do first? He immediately starts playing the game again.”
T*ring mess
Johan is now really tired of the VVD. “I am very disappointed and very angry. The VVD has made a hell of a mess in the Netherlands, hasn’t it? Then of course I mention Groningen and those allowances, but also immigration.”
He continues: “Rutte has always said: ‘I want to have the time to solve that’, and now they are coming up with two parties with rookies who have no experience at all and now they see the mood hanging, because if the VVD joins again (…) then they are afraid that they will collapse.”
Morally obligatory
Purely a political game, says Johan. “I think: if you have made such a mess of things in all those years, then you are morally obliged to now participate in solving things.”
He concludes: “This is another strategic move. She’s thought about that. That Dilan is a talking puppet of the makers behind the scenes.”
Ventriloquist dummy
The, as Johan calls her, the ventriloquist dummy in action: