Henk Krol thinks it is more than rightly that Renze Klamer got the lid on his nose and his TV show the conclave does not take place. “You don’t have to turn politics into play element,” he says.
The conclave should have become a political spectacle in which party leaders such as Geert Wilders, Frans Timmermans and Henri Bontenbal would be locked up in an RTL castle to have spicy debates. But the ambitious RTL project, for which Renze Klamer was tied as an interviewer, has definitively canceled.
Renze Sad
Too many leaders dropped out, so according to Renze it no longer wanted to continue. “Then you don’t want to make it anymore, because of course you want relevant politicians. We had calculated it a bit from Wilders, because he never really wants to do things like that, although he sometimes comes to a debate.”
But of the rest, the presenter finds ‘it actually very unfortunate’. He thinks it was wrongly put away as a kind of reality program. “If you see the Flemish variant, it is just a very substantive program, with substantive interviews. It is an opportunity to talk a little deeper with each other.”
Henk Critical
Henk Krol, who himself has been active as a politician for years, understands that Renze got the lid on the nose. He finds it logical that many party leaders didn’t feel like it. “I understand them very well. The whole politics has become one big game,” he says in the Story.
TV initiatives such as these from Renze only make it worse, he thinks. “Such a program gives a distorted picture of what you are doing. It has to be much more about the content and not about the game element.”
Just TV debate
Singer Sjoukje Smit is in the same prominent panel from Story and agrees with Henk. “I don’t think there would be a lot of enthusiasm of the viewers anyway. I wouldn’t turn on my TV for it!”
She concludes: “Usually the mutual discussions go hard hard. And then it becomes such a bickering. An ordinary television debate is clearer!”