Politician and former Lingo presenter Lucille Werner was not entirely pleased with the joke that CDA party member and Minister for Housing Hugo de Jonge made about people with disabilities in Humberto’s broadcast on Friday evening. “It is a pity that it is said that way, although I know Hugo well”, the Eindhoven MP responded at the table of the talk show.
In an item by reporter Jaïr Ferwerda about Werner’s departure from the House of Representatives, De Jonge talked about his memories of her, when a car drove up and Ferwerda pushed him aside. “Thank you for protecting me from being run over, otherwise I would have ended up with a disability,” De Jonge said. Werner has a disability himself and has always worked for people with a disability in the Chamber.
Out of tune
There was disapproval at the table. Werner thinks that De Jonge mainly made ‘a clumsy statement’ with his joke. “He doesn’t mean it that way, but it’s been a while…”, she said. “What I find complicated about this is that people with disabilities should be seen as potential. As people who can do something, who can be happy and not as pathetic, vulnerable or an object of concern.”
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